Continued reports from Mill Creek and other peripheral areas have been identifying unstable conditions due to buried PWL's, and this indicates that there is still a Persistent and Deep Persistent Slab Problem in Specific areas of the Central Core. Limited information from Avalanche Control over the past few days indicate that mitigation work in LCC contributed to Widespread large avalanches threatening this Specific area during the continual periods of Intense Precipitation combined with Moderate to Strong Winds in the Upper Elevation Exposed terrain.
Despite all of this activity, Upper BCC and the Brighton Basin area appeared to have a much different Danger and Hazard Rating. Limited visibility prevented extensive observations, yet there were times in the mid afternoon when a good portion of the Lackawaxen area was able to be viewed, and there were no signs of large avalanche activity seen. As a result, it would have been hard to list the Danger Rating as anything greater than Moderate in this Specific area. Travel on Thursday will allow for more extensive investigation of recent activity, but the new snow appeared to not be an issue in this zone other than the previously cited Loose Dry concerns.
Of Note: Despite the cold temperatures forecast for Thursday, the Likely effects of the mid February Solar on all this new snow Most Likely will help induce Loose Wet Activity on the Steeper sun effected slopes.
Also Of Note, were the friable m/f crusts that were created on the 8th and 9th, and then buried early on when these last big snow events started. As reported in an earlier Observation, there were small grained facets below these m/f crusts and very steep Upper Elevation ESE, SE, S and SSW aspects may pose a potential for collapse failure with the heavy load from this weeks snow event.
