Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Much wind loading going on above 7500ft. </p>
Poking around the past two days looking at the snowpack the main issue seems to be the wind loading in the exposed areas above 7500ft. I could not get the faceted layer to fail but of course may fail if wind loaded in the correct location.
no exciting photos! Photo 1 of the settling during in the past week. Photo 2 of the wind loading on the uptrack in 2 hours time at 7500ft.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>both soft slabs and hard slabs are out there, but seemed to be quite stubborn. No activity seen and I could not get any movement jumping on test slabs in wind loaded areas. </p> <p>I dug pits at 6000, 7000, 7500, 8000 and the weak faceted layer is down at 60cm (23 inches) below the surface as found as the 'thin grey line'. I could not bet good propagation at any level. This seems to be stabilizing quite well. </p>
Wind blown in exposed areas above 7500ft.