Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Cracking, Collapsing, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We did experience three separate collapses in our outing today. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Poor structure. Boy oh boy. We went to investigate Saturday's catch and carry near the Chicken Shit Ridge (<a href="https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanche/101896">LINK HERE</a>) but found it to be just a very small *new* snow avalanche that just happened to trip up the snowboarder in steep terrain. </p> <p>_</p> <p>We experienced collapsing on an east facing slope at roughly 9400', on a northeast facing slope at 8010, and on the hill above the Spruces parking lot at 7500'. (My wife reported collapsing today in our front yard at 7900'.(!). We were keen to look at low elevations and a profile (8010 NNE) showed a two foot thick slab consolidating toward 1F above the *fist plus - 4F minus DJL. ECTP19. Then we put stepped out of the snow profile hole to put our skis back on and experienced a large collapse.</p> <p>Low (8000' and below) elevation bands on northerlies remain suspect.</p> <p>Sun and heat taking its toll on the cold snow and almost easy enough to trigger wet loose in the dampened storm snow.</p>
Powder and hot powder. Excellent skiing and riding still in the sheltered terrain. Surface hoar and cracking...