Lawine

Council Mountain Zone

PACWest Mountains
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Quick report

Denser snow on the surface in upper exposed terrain as well as one recent natural wind slab avalanche just below the ridge line on a steep north aspect at about 7300 feet The only instability we saw, was recent wind affect on exposed, terrain, and 2 natural avalanches: 1 a wind slab that was recent and 2 the other a lower soft slab that was photographed. The recent wind slab was about 75 yards wide, size R1-D-2big enough to injure or bury you on a steep North aspect that was win, loaded

Weather

Cloud Cover
overcast
Wind Loading
previous
Snow Avail For Transport
small smounts

Visibility was poor above 7000’, hard to take pictures and observe, and sometimes even travel was difficult due to clouds

Avalanche

Size
D2 R1
Count
2
Aspect
NE
Trigger
N
Elevation
7300 ft

Looked recent, In wind loaded North aspect, large enough wind slab to injure maybe bury