Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Mike and I scheduled a welfare check for the Link Mountain weather station.
- We found surprisingly little wind effect throughout our tour, including exposed alpine terrain.
- I triggered a teeny-tiny slab below a small summit cornice.
- Cold, dry snow sluffed easily on steep slopes and ran further than we expected.
- Our pit at 7100 feet on a North aspect revealed a deep and stable snowpack.
- At 5500 to roughly 6500 feet there was 1+ feet of snow on top of the latest melt-freeze crust.
- Above 6500 feet we found over 3 feet of snow above the mid-December AR crust.
- We watched a group of sledders highmark steep, upper-elevation slopes without triggering sluff or slab.
We felt comfortable skiing steep slopes one at a time and enjoyed great riding conditions. See you for your next de-riming Link!
Small but long-running sluffs on sustained steep slopes. Cracking confined to leeward (north) slope just below summit.Weather
- Air Temp
- 2
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Rain Elevation
- NA
- Recent Snowfall
- 20
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Winds variable and light. Visibility came and went with passing low clouds and intermittent sunshine.
Snowpack
Pit at 7100 N slope (possibly
HS = 3m, AR crust down 150cm
ECTN15 down 40 cm on PP, DF
CTH21 (RP) down 40 cm (same interface)
Avalanche
2 x D1 long-running sluffs.