Quick report
Well that was a day! The orographic Irwin magic kicked in and hasn't let up. Currently sitting at 25" storm total with 2.1" of water, 11" of that fell during the day. It is still snowing 1-2" an hour up here and looks to continue most of the night and possibly into the morning. Ski cutting today produced numerous D1-1.5 soft slabs, primarily in mid and lower slope features, some breaking up to 18" deep but average depth was closer to 10-14". By the end of the afternoon, slabs were getting pushy and we crossed the threshold into explosives mitigation.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- intense
- Recent Snowfall
- 63
X all day, snow heavy at times (S5+), mod to strong winds, plenty of snow moving around. Still snowing S2+ at 1600
Snowpack
widespread storm slab due to various density changes in storm snow plus wind. Upper start zones were minimally loaded but mid and lowers were very reactive to ski cuts, propagating up to 250' wide and 12-18" deep.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 2
- Aspect
- W
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 11000 ft
widespread softslabs on ski cuts, way long, thortons, twin chute, assassins, widowmaker were all very reactive, 10-18" deep 50-250' wide failing on the old/new interface