Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2499 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We triggered numerous audible collapses or whoompfs, as the newly formed slab sfailed on the weak and shallow snow on the ground. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Drifted areas had the most reactive snow, with a stiffer and heavier slab layer. All tests pointed to failure on weak faceted snow beneath the freshly formed slab. In many cases I found a thin rime layer at the old/new interface, just above the reactive facets.. </p>
Floated well in the heavy and inverted new snow. Pole plant sto the ground dropping through slab layer into very weak facets. Did not hit any rocks although the snow is still pretty shallow