Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Hard planar surface beneath the new snow up high made for okay skiing that got better lower down. Snow started getting moist below 10,000' around noon. We may have gotten the last clean Coal Creek crossing at the exit. Small Isolated (~10' wide, ~20 cm deep) pockets of wind affected snow in open areas near ridgeline. New snow poorly bonded to crust on N-NE NTL.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 4-6"
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Mostly cloudy, light winds and pleasant temps with passing snow showers and the sun bursting through occasionally.
Snowpack
About 6" of new on top of a stout crust near 12,000'. Avoided one pocket of N facing snow near ridgeline that looked like it may have loaded enough to be concerning, otherwise there was a pretty consistent ~6" of new snow near ridgetop.
Avalanche
Widespread high speed sluffing on N-NE NTL and some small slabs in isolated wind affected areas near ridgeline. Sluffs we far running (~1000' vertical) and entrained a good deal of volume in very steep terrain; would have been large enough to knock someone off their feet.