Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Some natural avalanches that likely occurred during the intense snow and wind event were the only red flags we observed.</p>
1. Riders were enjoying the deep and supportable snow conditions. 2. It has been awhile where a person has to walk down into the Whitney Warming Hut.
Some minor surface sluffing is all the results I could get from breaking out some wind slabs on this northeast side of Double Hill.
These are photos of some of the crowns on the northwest, north and east sides of Moffit Peak. Interesting that some of these are well down the slope and likely in areas where there is a shallow rocky and weak snowpack.
Felt like the hazard was mostly moderate today, but taking into account all the recent avalanche activity and where these avalanche crowns are, there is still a good possibility that in steep shallow rocky areas a large and deep slide could easily be triggered.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The conditions today felt mostly stable, although we did not pull the dog's tail too much and venture into steep terrain. There is great riding and turning on low angle slopes and meadow skipping. Looking around at the numerous old crowns, the possibility of triggering a slide that breaks into some of the weak layers is still possible in areas with shallow weak snow.</p> <p>Any wind slabs that I stomped on were hesitant to move and needed a fair amount of effort to get something to crack out. In more steep and exposed terrain there could be some lingering wind slabs that are more sensitive to a person's weight. </p>
All the new snow has settled out nicely making for fun and supportable riding and turning. There is great powder conditions and folks were out in large numbers enjoying this remarkable storm for the western Uintas.