Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
New snow should keep human triggered avalanches possible on Wednesday if wind slabs build on southerly aspects due to the crust there. Expect dry loose sluffing in steep terrain.
Generally rightside up snowpack. Solar aspects had a hard crust down 35cm. This crust may be a good interface/sliding surface if a slab develops with new snow or wind or heating. New snow sluff ran fast on northerly aspects.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 25ish
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 7" overnight, 14" in 48 hours
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Short breaks in cloud cover and periods of thin clouds led to minor surface warming on SW aspects in the afternoon, some light zipper crust possible tomorrow
Snowpack
Found layer down 55cm of 4F hardness decomposing particles, rimed particles and graupel (2mm) beneath the settled slab (1F) that developed during the most recent SW storm event. These particles appear to be rounding slowly withQ3 interface with snow above. ECTN3 at 35cm down in recent storm snow.