Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Obvious wind loading onto northerly facing slopes. Given the warm temps and high winds, slabs were becoming a bit stiff and hard to trigger with ski cuts.</p>
Photo shows the stripping of the southerly facing slopes by the strong southerly winds.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>See comments above and separate avalanche submission. These will be hidden by new snow tomorrow and may catch people off guard.</p> <p>These still lurk out there on north through northeast. Was finding very poor structure today in some pits, and OK structure in others. However, recent avalanche activity shows that pits may have limited utility right now due to a very spatially variable snowpack. In particular have noticed slabs coming out lower on the slope than expected. Best practice is to give them some more time.</p>
Still nice soft settled powder on sheltered shady slopes, but lots of wind damage everywhere else.