Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 2530 m
- Slope Angle
- 18°
I was easily able to trigger cornice falls and to crack out small, 1' deep wind slabs in stiff ridge top drifts.
Saturday night's rime-crust on open mid-elevation terrain shimmers in the defuse sunlight.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>West wind was strong enough to drift snow around in upper Long Hollow. Stripping the thin crust off windward slopes and picking snow up in flat open terrain or fetches and depositing it in the form of stiff drifts in deposition areas.</p> <p>This danger appears to be gradually diminishing in most places, but I don't ever trust buried facets.</p>
Thin rime crust capping last week's powder, not too bad and deteriorating in the trees, a bit thicker in open terrain.