Snowpack

Taylor Mountain

Noah McCorkelTetons
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Quick report

Cracking
isolated

Triggered several small soft slabs 4-6” deep along the ridgeline from 9,500’-10,000’. Sluggish and not running far, but one propagated about 20 feet across a small gully feature. Hard to call any even D1 in size. Reactivity was isolated to wind loaded pockets.

Weather

Cloud Cover
obscured
Recent Snowfall
2"
Snow Avail For Transport
small smounts

Mostly cloudy with areas of fog/low clouds. Light to moderate W/NW wind along the ridgetop at 10,000'. Calm below the ridgeline.

Snowpack

Fairly reactive in windloaded areas for only 2 inches of new snow. Not a great sign regarding the weak snow in the upper snowpack. We’ll see how things shake out when a real storm hits the Tetons, but certainly worth keeping the recently buried surface on the radar.

The snowpack below 8,500 is mostly faceted on shaded slopes.