Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>I just wanted to stretch the legs and see how the new snow would bond to the heat crusted surface, how dense the new snow came in, and how much water was percolating down. Did a quick shovel shear facing SW because I didn't have too much time, but I don't know specifically what any other tests would have told me much more. Failed with quite a bit of force at 105 cm and 80 cm, both noticeable heat crust layers in the pictures below. The lower one sheared really clean, upper not as much. Snow between and below these two layers was quite wet even at 9000' and above. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Only decreasing in the areas that all the precip fell as snow/wintery mix, lower elevations will still be suspect. I heard firsthand that it was raining over the I 80 pass last afternoon night and it was still raining above the U of U this afternoon although it snowed in the valley in the morning. PC ridgeline, Millcreek, lower elevations will have same or increasing danger of wet slabs. </p> <p>The more snow have the more likely it will be to fail on either of those layers, but more likely they top one (at around 105cm). With and being warm today and the last few weeks it could round out the snow by that interface or just create a slab on top of it. Hard to say right now, it felt like the new snow was bonding pretty well to the crust layer. </p>
Sounds like BCC was hit by more snow, not unexpectedly coming up from the South. Still should help out over the next few days to patch everything up from the the heat. Right side up snow that was dense for the Wasatch but not too dense.