Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
You can see quite a bit of wind erosion and deposition in the Tri Chutes area when the sun came out in the afternoon after the passage of the cold front.
Wind loaded texture on the north aspect of Lake Peak in White Pine. The wind loading was fairly extensive but fairly shallow.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Main problem was wind slabs, mostly at elevations above about 10,000'. The past wind and wind today has created some fairly widespread areas of wind damaged snow with shallow wind slabs that would crack out but we could not get any of them to move. We did not get too far into the more heavily drifted terrain but people need to watch out for wind drifts tomorrow.</p>
Nearly all of the above for snow surface conditions. Still some dense, soft, dry snow on sun and wind sheltered terrain. The wind was moving quite a bit of snow around above 10,000' with some shallow wind slabs formed. Crusty on sun exposed slopes.