Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>I saw no red flags, but digging pits reveals the persistant poor pack down deep. The wind slab in the areas I was seems content to stay where it is.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The place got wind hammered but covered by about three inches. The wind slab did not seem very sensitive</p> <p>I was able to break out a slab on top of a crust at 30 inches. (see photo). While it is required 28 wacks, it propagated nicely. See photo of crust with fist density faceted snow below. </p>
Nice surface conditions with excellant turning above 7200ft, cold dry powder with some soft slab in the exposed areas. At 8300 feet I found 169 cm (66 in.). Below 7000 ft. the coverage is still very sparse. We got missed with the last storm!