Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Yes, there are a lot of obvious wind slabs in upper elevations but I could not get any of them to crack or react. It seems with the warm temperatures and the passage of some time, they have healed up. No one seemed to be having any trouble with them including the resorts. Snow profiles from myself and other avalanche classes in the area are showing quite stable snow.</p> <p>The snow on the southerly aspects is damp to wet at most elevations but even on the steeper terrain in the heat of the afternoon, I could not get any wet sluffs going. </p> <p>So the bottom line is I think we are at mostly Low danger.</p>
Snowpack
Yes, there are a variety of sun and wind effects, but the turning conditions are surprisingly good on the wind and sun sheltered slopes with about 3-5 inches of soft, dry, near-surface faceted snow and dense, settled snow. Yes, there are a lot of tracks but it's easy enough to find untracked. Mid to upper elevation northwest through northeast are best. Today there was a large number of people enjoying some of the popular terrain.
The south facing slopes were soft and turnable in the afternoon but if temperatures drop, like they are supposed to do tomorrow, they will be crusty.