Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2987 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>One size 2 natural glide avalanche noted south of the Diving Board, perhaps 1 to 3 days old NE 10,200'. Poor structure as seen below.</p>
Photos:
- Poor structure on Bonkers up high; didn't like it and bailed. No collapsing or cracking noted. The last bit as we talk about: steep, thin, rocky terrain with poor structure. One pit below showed full propagation ECTP31 on basal depth hoar. Basal grains 3-4mm and damp.
- Damp basal depth hoar.
- Size 2 glide release from last 1-3 days. Old previous glide release in upper skier's right Bonkers from weeks ago. Similar size; 2.5
- Another recent size 1.5 glide - close up
- Upper elevation probing found HS of 90-130cm.
- Perhaps the future: we carried skis to the bridge ~7800'.
Snowpack
Similar upper few cms of snow as noted in Days Fork on Wednesday: couple inch wind crust, DF's becoming facets, wafer-thin rime crust. Some wind and sun affected snow, but found good (not excellent) skiing conditions in upper Broads.