Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Right at the end of the day we got some cracking happening, and noticeably it was well down off the ridgeline; the winds seemed strong and swirly enough and there's enough new/light snow to blow about that slab development may be forming tonight in unusual (ie lower, more typically sheltered) places. </p>
Will our cycle of spiking avy danger and quick regression to general stability continue?
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Things seemed to have mellowed out a bit today from what sounded like yesterday's storm cycling (we were out of the Wasatch yesterday). Our fellow riders were confident enough in their stability evaluation that they charged down frequent-fliers Ricardo's and El Rollo first thing with nothing but small sluffs to show for it. But with increasing wind it was easy to imagine the white dragons once again awakening even if there wasn't more snow in the forecast, which apparently there is. Monday will be interesting. </p>
yesterday's storm seemed to produce a bit less in BCC than what I heard had deposited in Mill Creek. it seemed fairly right side up and when we started the day did not seem very slab-like. However, over the course of the day as the wind picked up - and blew in our skin line and down tracks - the copious soft snow started to get blasted into place by the winds.