Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 24°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Red flags were minimal and not widespread. Saw one old, natural slide on a steep east aspect that most likely went during the last storm cycle. I had one big whoopfing collapse that took me by surprise on the second time up my skin track and than another smaller collapse 50 feet higher. </p>
Small pocket on east aspect at 9600 feet.
First photo, new snow, second photo, basal facets, third photo, rime in the trees.
I traveled from 7400-10,400 mostly on the north half of the compass. I found soft snow at all elevations and aspects traveled. I was surprised that I didn't encounter melt/freeze crust at lower elevations with the warm temps from the last couple of days. Skinning, i was sandboxing on and off at lower elevations up to about 9K but mostly supportable. Rime above about 10K but not much.
I did two ECT's with one ECTX and one ECTN18, 39cm's down. Four CT's all failed on basal facets with moderate effort to fail. One CT18RP 57cm's down. A bit a temperature gradient in the upper 20 cm's of the snowpack but not radical.
Today's forecast reflected what I was finding in my travels.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>There are several persistent weak layers in the snowpack now that should trend toward the same to decreasing danger with no new snow load. </p>
A trace to 1"of new snow fell overnigh compised of graupel, stellars and rimed stellars.