Quick report
- Aspect
- Southwest
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3200 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Wind loading is visible even below treeline. Some recent slide paths have also been redeposited with wind blown snow.</p>
Total Snow Depth: 100 cm
CT 17 SC @ 20cm from the ground
ECTP 21 @ 45 from the ground
Noticed failure at two different weak layers.
Hard to see in the photo below, in the distance you can see the Upper Horse Creek slide path filling in with mostly wind deposited snow.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Crusts and facets make our snowpack. Faceting near the ground seems to be bonding a bit - maybe that's just on S aspects. </p> <p>Wind deposited snow paired with the more recent storm snow has made for a pretty solid slab on top of our faceted and crust layers.</p>
On south aspects there was still soft snow above the last melt freeze crust, either soft snow or wind blown snow.