March 01st, 20223/1/2022
Temperatures are warming fast this week with the strong March sun. I decided it was time to get high in the alpine and stay in due N facing terrain. White Baldy is in the very back of the Redpine drainage and tops out at a little over 11,000ft. Getting there was a bit of a struggle with a icy skin track down low, the super gloppy saturated snow at mid elevations, so skin wax is recommended. Once we got to the bottom of White Baldy it was evident that it had shed a lot of snow during the storm last week but it looked more like sluffing than actual avalanching. There was approximately 10 to 12 inches of light density snow sitting on a spongy base. The new snow stayed dry on the high N but got damp in most other locations. There was lots of wet activity on the mid elevation W facing and also S and E. The North was stable like it’s been all week in my opinion but there are a few windslabs scattered around and triggering one in high consequence terrain would not be good. I’d expect everything to be crusted in the AM except higher elevation NW, N, NE.
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