Recent Avalanches? | No |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Recent Avalanches? | No |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
At the first and main steep roll there was an obvious wind-loaded pillow on the knoll with the skintrack to the lookers left. I tapped a ski tip into it out of curiosity and a big crack shot up above me roughly 15-20' above me and maybe 10' across in the shape of a slab avalanche but didn't slide downhill. I didn't probe around but it seemed to be about a 1-foot thick slab that was the new wind-loaded snow over the old windslab.
Roughly 5" of new snow, windblown, with a soft windslab in the lower meadow.