Quick report
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Went up to the Guard road and headed for Scott's Bluff, cracking and collapsing was the norm on all aspects except S, even the W would produce shooting cracks on every turn. There's still not much of a slab but even where the wind has just kissed the new snow surface slightly results in shooting cracks and collapses. Right now the instabilities are in your face and hard not to recognize, but some steep N facing slopes have been wind scoured at the top in the starting zone and require getting down the slope aways to hit the sweet spot with the weak layer underlying it. More new snow or just a bump in wind speeds will surely increase the hazard.
photos: shooting cracks, and collapses, and a look at the weak layer on the N facing.
Snowpack
4 more inches of new light density snow from last night and this morning.