Quick report
The wind did a number on the surface of the snow, and we saw many strange wind features, such as wind drifts that resembled crowns from afar and runnels in the rain crust from strong winds. Downhill winds blew most of the new snow from the past few days away, and the surface is mostly a hard, supportable, rain crust. There are areas of wind loaded snow in gullies and around isolated terrain features at mid elevations. These are mostly stabilizing, but I would look for isolated instability (shooting crack) and consider terrain consequences.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- light
Mostly clear and sunny.
Snowpack
On the east aspect at 8100' we observed no facet layer at the bottom of the snowpack. ECTN15 @ 91cm. Wind slab broke above a melt freeze crust on near surface facets at 91 cm and did not propagate. On the north side, the facet layer at the bottom of the snowpack is healing. ECTX
Avalanche
- Size
- D2 R2
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 9000 ft
We saw several debris piles from wind slab avalanches in the bottom of Naya Nuki Bowl that had slid from multiple aspects. Likely from Sunday during the wind event.