Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Beautiful day in the alpine. Barely able to ski down above treeline. Thin turns below treeline with many lurking obstacles. Rescue sled photo shows how thin it is up there. Many natural releases were obvious across Gold Basin in the north facing areas commonly skied. Suprising number of tracks in the thin snow, probably a lot of base gouges and rough edges out there. Take care, friends.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We observed plenty of evidence skinning up and skiing down of the poor snowpack structure that has been well-documented in other recent observations. </p> <p>The north side of the Laurel ridgeline showed signs of some wind loading and cornice formation. Several gullies on other aspects were also drifted in with wind slab. Not a big problem now, but something to keep in the back of our minds as snow accumulates on north faces (fingers crossed).</p>