Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 2865 m
- Slope Angle
- 29°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>no doubt the wind slabs were present on NE through ESE aspects, low density snow easily moved by wind, noted new small cornices formed but did not see any natural activity in the area. </p>
did have failure at new snow / old snow interface with old skool CT, but could not duplicate with ECT, gaining strength nicely
265 cm or 117" of snow!!! at 9500'
winter is back, there is a reason this is one of our favorite haunts
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>snow was very well behaved out of wind, right side up, sluffing as noted above, visibility was still poor over summit, and we did not get a look at any of the higher terrain today</p> <p>new cornices were easily formed from loose snow in fetches, but we were preoccupied with the stellar hero snow, and did not get into any, increase in wind will grow them quickly </p>
wind exposed areas would refill uptrack, moving snow off ridgelines, but in protected areas we skied today, no slabs were present although we did note pack was settling out from cold smoke first thing in AM to more low density snow, no doubt forming new cornices and wind slabs, as in forecast. We stayed in well known terrain and after a couple of ski cuts, found only new snow sluffing,