Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2713 m
- Slope Angle
- 31°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>few obvious red flags...</p>
Most of the natural activity from over the weekend was covered up and blown-in by snow that fell after the natural cycle, likely sometime Saturday. We could see signs of large avalanches that had run during the storm, like this 3'+ deep crown under the cliffs on a steep north facing slope at around 9000'.
Our test pit shows around 3' of new snow and weak faceted snow near the ground....
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We found evidence of recent natural avalanches failing on weak snow near the ground, and our test pit on a north facing slope at 9000' showed easy propagating failures at the bottom of the snowpack. </p>
New snow from 12/8- 12/11 fairly congruous and was mostly supportable on skis. Fairly easy to travel on top of, good riding and didn't hit many rocks.