Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Talking to snowmobilers in the area and my observation from this week and last, in sheltered areas it was still possible to find weak faceted snow that was weak to the ground. Areas that were more open and wind impacted were solid (go any were conditions). </p>
Millers flat with 1 inch settled wet snow over a weak melt freeze crust. below the crust was facets starting to warm and melting.
Skyline 25 shows a dense slab over faceted snow from the snow storm in early Jan. this picture was taken at 9700 feet as compared to the millers flat picture at 9.000 feet.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wet avalanches at low elevations are evident and may be with rain to 8000 with next storm could impact the higher elevations.</p> <p>Cornices may be more sensitive with warming temp's and more snow this weekend.</p>
New snow at 9,000 feet was wet dense snow over a weak 1 inche melt freeze crust. Below that was the faceted snow from the last storm, settled to 6 inches. The faceted snow was beging to get damp also. At 9700 feet the snow was dense wind packed 3 inches over faceted snow in sheltered areas. Open areas were solid 1 finger to the ground.