We traveled between 4300 and 6700 ft on all aspects. At this point I would consider the facet / crust combo 30 cm down to be a persistent week layer. collapsing and whoomphing at this layer was on close to widespread today, both in the trees and near ridge lines, on all aspects. We had propagation on this layer on an ECT (ECTP 12) @6300 feet on an east aspect. This layer is about 8 cm of faceted MFs sadwhiched Im between crusts. The upper snowpack has not formed too much of a cohesive slab but I imagine this layer will become more reactive once / if this layer forms a harder slab. Ski pen : 30-40 cm.
We found Excellent ski conditions on protected NE and SE slopes where snow hadn’t blow away.
Advanced Observations
Observed Avalanche Problem #1:
Dry Loose
Comments:
Upper new 30 cm of new snow was Unconsolidated and showing signs of movement.. We Stuck to slopes 35deg or less but would have been concerned about dry loose on steeper slopes 40deg or more. Wind slab development was confined to very specific features and did not seem to develop into anything large or reactive, not was there any storm slab . For this reason we considered loose to be more notable.
Observed Avalanche Problem #2:
Persistent Slab
Comments:
At this point I would consider the facet / crust combo 30 cm down to be a persistent week layer. collapsing and whoomphing at this layer was on close to widespread today, both in the trees and near ridge lines, on all aspects. We had propagation on this layer on an ECT (ECTP 12) @6300 feet on an east aspect. This layer is about 8 cm of faceted MFs sadwhiched Im between crusts. The upper snowpack has not formed too much of a cohesive slab but I imagine this layer will become more reactive once / if this layer forms a harder slab.
Observed Avalanche Problem #3:
Wind Slab
Comments:
Wind out of the SE, transporting snow . Specific , small and not very reactive at the moment
