Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Avalanches from last weekend were observed from very low elevations (5500') to high elevations (>8000') on multiple if not all aspects. Visibility has been poor above around 8000' for the past two days so it was not really possible to see starting zones for the bigger slide paths I saw evidence of recent avalanche activity in. I have not seen any fresh slides from 2/11 or 2/12, but that's possibly an artifact of conservative terrain choices and poor visibility; all recent slides have a few to several inches of snow over their paths and debris piles. All of the slides I have seen up close have been associated with terrain traps and all of these have been below around 7500'. None of these slides appeared to have ripped clear to the ground and the bed surfaces were consistently a combination of rime crust (above the basal facets) and recent storm snow. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Today wind slabs may have been forming on SE and NW aspects. </p> <p>This afternoon this was a danger below 6500' on all aspects. </p> <p>Should add additional avalanche problems of a) persistent slab and b) new snow. </p>