Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2743 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We had numerous cracks with some of them shooting over 15M. </p> <p>The old snow was a thin crust with facets to the ground below it and a thin layer of facets on top of it.</p>
We had numerous shooting cracks during our travels. Some were able to spider out and some propagated ~15M.
On slopes over 30 degrees were were able to get a small amount of snow movement of the new snow on the thin layer of facets on top of the weak crust. On larger or steepers slopes this could create a decent size avalanche.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>With 12-14" of new snow on the facet/crust combo on steeper terrain it would be easy to get the new snow to avalanche. If the storm comes in wet as predicted, it could easily overload the snowpack. If this occurs, I would expect both natural and human triggered avalanches.</p>
We were surprised by the amount of new snow. It ranged from 12-14" with some places favored by wind being deeper/
The snow was very low density and you could feel the thin crust under the new snow as you descended.