Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>If surface hoar development continues and is buried intact by the next storm, it could provide a very insidious weak layer once buried. </p>
Snowpack
A luxuriant and widespread blanket of surface hoar is developing at lower and mid elevtations, up to 15 mm crystals, making fun some fun skiing through the low bushes.
A quick pit on E slope @ 30 degrees 8800 just below the saddle S of Ben Lomond summit:
0-16" wind slab of rounded facets, mostly 4 finger
CT = 6 Q2 @ 17" on a very weak layer of facets associated with an old crust
17-40" (to ground) mostly old facets, fist
No collapsing or cracking as noted on previous tour (12/12/13)