Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The trace to an inch of faceted snow from the end of November was eroded from Sunday's strong pre-frontal winds. Weaknesses noted beneath the Thanksgiving crust, but not teased out through snow tests. Basal snow as weak as I've seen across the range. Seems mostly dormant and unreactive, but for very isolated high shady alpine terrain where wind loading has played a role. </p>
Excellent riding conditions in sun and wind sheltered terrain. The high south facing into Dry Fork remained cold powder. Northeasterly winds moving some snow and encountered some cornice development and isolated pockets of hard wind slab though not enough to be a problem in our travels. Southerly aspects at lower elevations did become damp and were crusted over not long the sun went down.