Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>A human triggered slide in Baldy Main Chute. Cracking in the upper 4 inches of snow.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>This weakness should be short lived, but there seemed to be a widespread shear in the new snow, about 3-4 inches down, even on wind sheltered slopes. On wind drifted slopes, it could be two or three times deeper. Definitely look for the weakness tomorrow, Wednesday, and again on Thursday as the next storm comes in - one easy way to do this is walk a few feet above an existing skin track.</p> <p>There is a thin, 2 to 6" layer of facets sitting on the ground on northerly and northeasterly facing slopes, above about 9,500'. They are just thick enough and widespread enough we can't ignore them. </p> <p>Photo below is of the season's snow pack at about 10,000', north northwesterly facing. The upper arrow points to the new snow interface/density inversion.</p> <p>The lower arrow points to the shallow layer of weak facets, deeper in other spots. Facets are still cold and loose.</p>
Looking a bit more like winter these days. The storm came in with a decent amount of grauple - good, dense snow that is starting to cover up the rocks. But plenty of rocks are lurking just below the surface, so the best bet for turns are still low angle smooth or grassy slopes.