Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No red flags. Sun, warmth, cloud cover (.....continued storms and lack of long period of clear/cold.....) have all helped form a strong and stable snowpack. So far.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The new snow, coming in warm and lacking much wind, should bond reasonably well to the old, warm, corrugated snow surfaces </p> <p>Tomorrow's (Tuesday's) avalanche danger will reflect overnight wind and how fast the snow piles up. </p> <p>I wouldn't be surprised to see about a foot or more of medium density snow fairly evenly spread across the Wasatch Range by tomorrow. </p>
Myriad crusts: sun crusts on sunny aspects, thermal crusts on (true) northerlies up to 9500' or a touch higher. Wind crusts and soft settled "powder" above that.
Average depth of 2' at 10,000', maybe 2.5' from 10-11k. Some surface facets can be found, but seem spotty and not well represented in most terrain.
Southerlies are dry with some remaining (albeit melt-freeze crusts) snow on east and west aspects at mid and upper elevations. Photo below.