January 16

White Pine-Red Baldy

Elevations, slope angles and aspects

7500-11000', angles over 35°, north facing aspects.

Snow conditions

Some lingering evidence of yesterday's "storm". Otherwise, I'd think wind fucked sums it up.

(Scoured, drifted, windboard, boilerplate, buffed and sastrugi.)

Avalanche activity

New snow sluffs and slides in upper Tanners, yesterday.

tanners

Triggered a shallow hard slab, ski cutting on the White Pine retreat.

slip-slide

Elevation was around 9k. Aspect, north facing. Slide was about 25' wide, 1-6" deep. Descended 50-60 vertical feet.

Wind drift resting on firm wind compacted surface. Facets? Hell, I dunno.

Shoulda dug a pit. It's trendy. Forgot my string, though.

Weather

Overcast skies, moderate temperatures. Wind from the west, gusting to around 30 mph on the ridges. Obviously was moving some snow.

Evaluation

Where have I heard this?

"Instability would be from recent wind drifting"

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