Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Very easy to initiate wet pushalanches, and I think on the SW-W facing slopes I checked out at about 2 pm, there was a considerable avalanche danger for wet slides. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Although easy to recognize, the slopes up high had the highest danger for wet activity, and down low , below 6-6500 feet where the temperature cooled significantly, there was no danger. I believe this was the most significant activity I found for the day</p> <p>In Neffs canyon, there had been significant wind slabbing in the past storm, and I think the possibility of bringing out a stubborn wind slab on weak buried snow is a possibility. </p>
Down low, snow was low density, with fresh surface hoar approximately 6-8 mm in size. Up high, there had been significant wind effect, with portions being highly supportable, and quickly turning to breakable wind crust, where one would auger in. At 9000, while attempting to access a N-NE facing chute, around the West side of peak just SE of Mount Olympus, small wet sluffs were being triggered by large wet rollerballs about the size of mini-fridges. It was probably possibly to find just about every type of snow out there today.