Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Multiple red flags present but in many ways less obvious than they have been. We only noted a few small collapses for example. The snow structure at higher elevations is a little better than low elevations but facets/persistent weak layer is still present. Wind and lots of snow occurred just recently but the snow surface is so good, it is easy to forget.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>On the NW slope where we skied, there were two facet layers and several wind slabs but snow structure seemed better than say around 7500. The snow here seemed to have less energy. Propagation in snow pit tests was minimal. </p> <p>As noted above, very large wind drifts were created during the last storm. We also found pockety wind slabs along ridges that could avalanche.</p>
Snow was generally top notch but some areas of wind slabs noted along ridges. In some cases snow had been drifted into pretty large berms. These required a little caution since they were dense and often had a big drop on the other side.