Observations

Front Range: Rabbit Creek – McHugh Creek headwaters

Red flags (obvious signs of instability):

• Human triggered micro wind slab upper elevation leeward terrain

Weather:

• Mostly cloudy to obscured skies with light wind, light snowfall at times, and alpine temps in the lower to mid 20s

Surface conditions:

• Solid and supportable melt-freeze crust and wind-packed snow in the valley
• Soft, loose snow (low volume sluff) sheltered upper elevation northerly terrain
• Isolated, soft, thin wind slabs along leeward ridgelines

Snowpack:

• Hard shears from hand pits.  Snowpack solid enough for rappelling from snow bollards.