Snowpack

Observation: North Slope

Craig GordonUintas
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Red Flags
Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comment
<p>No cracking or collapsing, but poor snow structure is readily apparent. Traveled to further investigate a week old avalanche.</p>

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Knowing where the weak snow exists is the ticket. Taking our own advice my partner and I simply steered clear of upper elevation northerlies, got out on sunny slopes with no old snow, and had a blast.</p>

Great riding on spongy, surfy, shallow pow.