Steamboat & Flat Tops
AvalancheEric Deering ยท Feb 21, 2014
Weather
Light snow in am with Mod winds. Snow died out in pm but winds kept cranking.
Snowpack
SE slopes have about 6-8" new sitting on our last rain crust, while NE slopes got a good deal more loading by pm and had 12"+ in areas. The big note here is the variability. There are pockets with no new load on feet away from pockets of that 12+.
Avalanche
Ski cuts on steep rollers on SE and NE aspects resulted in slides on the rain crusts. On the southerly aspects they were on 6-8", N side gave a bit deeper, as mentioned above. All were in the 9600-10,000' range. All were small pockets (D1 mostly).