Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3200 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Without the cracking and collapsing we had 2-3 weeks ago, we have a false sense of security out there. The heavy load of new snow (looks like about 2" SWE), recent wind loading, and poor structure are reason to be cautious.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>About 30" in the Brian Head area since Tuesday. Forecast to get another 1-2" tonight before things quiet down. No new snow avalanches were witnessed. No cracking or collapsing were witnessed. The only instability witnessed in these new snow layers was in my compression test. However, this is a single snow pit and a single observation. I'm not sure how the new snow is behaving in other areas.</p> <p>It's still out there. I'm reading from others more experienced than myself that it is healing but that it will take more time. Things seem more stable because we don't have any of the obvious red flags associated with this layer, but it's a 'sleeper'. In other words, hit it in the right spot and I expect it to fail in a big way.</p>
This area received about 30 inches of new snow in the last 3 days. This recent snow is right side up and travel is relatively easy despite the quantity of the new snow.