Quick report
I was focused on snow surfaces ahead of Sunday's storm. The snow surface generally looks favorable for bonding here, and I expect storm instabilities will be relatively short-lived. Snow surfaces are textured from wind and I didn't find notable persistent weak layers. Melt-freeze crusts span steeper southerlies and decomposing/fragmented grains cover northerlies with minor amounts of faceting.
No signs of instability underfoot. Some rollerballs on low, southerlies; they weren't enough to produce wet loose activity.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- scattered
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- HS
- Count
- 4
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 11600 ft
A few more previously undocumented wind slabs (D1-1.5) from Tuesday's storm and a slab avalanche in Right Chute (first reported earlier this week) that looks thick enough to potentially be on older weak layers.