Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
We toured up USA bowl and found the wind had stripped the south facing slope of new snow, depositing it into South Monitor. We descended via low angle slopes in Willow and kept it safe.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We dug a pit along the Willow / Monitor ridgeline on a north facing rollover at 9,970' in wind drifted snow. Height of snow was 78 cm. Compression tests showed Q2 fractures in the wind drifted snow with moderate force (CT12 @ 29 cm below surface, CT14 @ 43 cm below surface). ECT resulted in ECTN13 @ 40 cm below the surface. Upper 38 cm of the snowpack was F+ hardness, which overlied 4F hardness snow extending to the ground. </p>