Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3200 m
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Snow profile was done on a wind loaded slope on a north facing aspect. The pack was deep here relative to most slopes hence the equitemperature nature of the pit. Most slopes are shallow and weak with a pronounced temperature gradient.
Still waiting for more water weight to tip the scales but the wind is creating sensitive slabs in some places. There just isn't that much snow to get people into terrain that they might find unstable. Low to moderate danger for the most part in the terrain traveled today. Moderate danger tomorrow if you are traveling in the wind zone and we do get some some snow overnight.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Still waiting for new snow but the wind keeps blowing and is forming wind slabs in open terrain and off the ridges on the lee side of terrain features. The wind was affecting snow well off the ridges today. Wind slabs were both stubborn and sensitive to the weight of a skier. </p>
Dense wind blown snow capping varying degrees of facets. Damp snow found at all elevations traveled.