Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Cracking
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 35°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Old wind slabs in upper elevation, wind exposed areas sometimes crack under your weight but they seem stubborn and not too reactive.</p>
Short video on my snowpit test in White Pine with an explanation of the snowpack.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Old, lingering wind slabs in wind exposed areas but they are stubborn and not very reactive. They are probably not much of a concern but deserve mentioning.</p> <p>The old depth hoar near the ground continues to propagate fractures on Extended Column Tests but it's quite inconsistent and you have to beat on them quite hard to get them to go. We have not had any avalanches triggered on this layer in about a week, so it appears to be mostly dormant but needs to be mentioned. You find this weak layer only on northwest, north and northeast facing slopes above about 9,500'. Botom Line: mostly Low danger</p>
If you're a snowshoer, you don't need them on the low elevation trails--you need crampons! Very icy. Snow in the sun is quite soggy but the snow above about 9,000' on the shady slopes is dense, creamy, dry snow composed of about 3 inches of graupel and in the upper elevation, wind exposed areas, it's quite wind blown with old, dense, variable wind drifts and tricky on skis.