Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Lots of wind today and they were forming some fresh wind slabs up to a foot deep along the ridge lines. They were manageable at the time I was stomping around on them, but it was a day of changing conditions in the high terrain.</p>
The few hours of good weather this morning allowed for some nice views of the high peaks and things are white along the Hwy 150 corridor.
What looks to be an older large crown on Mount Marsell.
Around mid-day the grey skies moved in and light snow followed shortly after.
The slabs I was finding along the exposed ridge lines were breaking up to a foot deep similar to this one on an east facing slope.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Slopes on the north side of the compass should have some sensitive wind slabs that formed today and these would likely be deeper and more connected than this afternoon with forecasted winds and snow this evening.</p>
Noted some surface hoar this morning, but would imagine most of this will be destroyed by all the gusty winds today. Pretty decent coverage up in the high terrain around Bald Mt. and Lofty Lake, only a few large rocks poking through. Over all the snow conditions in this area are quite good, but the winds were starting to affect the snow quality.