Quick report
- Red Flags
- Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Collapse felt and heard by several members of our party on a flat area at 9,400 feet. A pit there revealed 45 cm of sugar at the base under an additional 55 cm of snow. Total depth 100 cm. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Mixed signals out there. Clear collapse of a large flat area as we skinned over it. No other collapsing, cracking or whumphing in six hours of turns and skinning. Hit several short pitches steeper than 35 degrees (north-facing, between 9,200 feet and 8,800 feet) and could not provoke the snow, not even sloughing. There is obviously a weak layer that is very thick and that can fail, as shown by the collapse. But it is becoming less touchy? </p>
Very good snow. Light fluff, easy turns. Poles easily go to the ground. Saw some feathers starting Sunday near Electric Lake after the cold, clear Saturday night. Even more very large feathers this morning . Trees completely coated with hoar frost.