Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>In specific locations we found pockets of wind drifted snow. Leeward slopes near ridgelines. These pockets made cracks and you stomped on them. Nothing had much mass or energy. Deepest at around a foot. </p>
The greatest hazards I encountered, as I perceived them, were driving down the canyon on the snowy road and the variable surface conditions now slightly obscured or affected by new snow and wind. Rocks, roots, stumps, old tracks, various crusts and whatever else is lurking down there.
I imagine as the wind continues to blow you could find small wind slabs in isolated areas.