Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Collapsing
- Elevation
- 3261 m
- Slope Angle
- 27°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Some collapsing. Mostly in flatter untouched areas, but we did have some collapsing and sloughing on the north slopes we skied. The recent storm snow hadn't consolidated into a cohesive slab on the north faces, but one of us did kick off a ~15 wide slab down to the old October snow on a slightly steeper roll over. This definitely caught our attention after our snow pit indicated that the storm interface had made significant progress in building bond strength. Still have to be mindful of the facets at the bottom.</p>
We got failures at 74 cm (probably dividing two waves of snow in last storm), and 45 cm (Oct snow interfact) that did now propagate in the ECT test. We were surprised how much stronger these were after only a couple days. After kicking off the small new snow slab and having plenty of medium size collapses, I think avalanche risk is still considerable.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Still a weak interface between recent storm snow and the October hurricane snow. The October snow also has two pockets of facets which have a little bit of bonding strength, but still collapse when you poke at them a bit.</p> <p>Wind was moving significant snow today blowing from a southerly direction. Areas with accumulated snow will have risk for wind slabs which could step down to lower weak layers.</p>
Wind crusts forming on exposed areas. Powder in the trees.