Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Once again 5 out of 7. </p>
Some of the recent avalanches. Sorry they are hard to see in the photos need to find away to draw on them. This cycle was not as wide spread as I would have expected. These were not as large or as well connected either. These persistent pockets are just hard to trigger in the Ogden mountains. These were all D2 avalanches and none ran all the way to the Cutler Basin drainage.
ECTPV
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>There were numerous areas where wind slabs were likely. It looked like a couple of the large avalanches on the Willard ridge line were not to the ground. Just small wind slab pockets and others had stepped down to the Basel facets and others were all on the persistent slab. </p> <p>These seem to be hard to find the right spot to trigger. I had a ECTX an EXTPV and an ECTP22 all on the Basel facets in the same pit just moving up slope. The Isolation failure was in the shallowest spot. I feel that the chances of triggering this avalanche are small but the consequences are very high. I am still a little gun shy after Monday Anyways. It seems like the way to easily get caught in these is to trigger a wind slab on a NE aspect that steps down to the Persistent Weak Layer. </p>
Most of the now up high had been wind compacted.