Lawine

Jewel Basin- Black Lake Ski

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Quick report

At 4pm, there was over 5" of slushy snow up to 6500' and higher on certain orientations. Observed wind slabs that had been consolidated, but were not reactive. Quite a few glide cracks, looked like. Cornices reactive to human jumping. Unsure when wet slabs occured. No reactivity to note seen through out the day besides slight snails from skis.

Weather

Air Temp
>30
Cloud Cover
broken
Wind Loading
light
Recent Snowfall
0
Snow Avail For Transport
none

Overcast, but still warm even though the sun was not shining anywhere we were this afternoon. Precip started to move in ~7pm, as rain...

Snowpack

Dug down 50 cm and one cohesive layer (all 1F), snow was very compacted too dig in deeper, but that was in a definitely wind loded, E facing spot.

Avalanche

Size ~2 wet slabs, primarily on W facing terrain. Smaller wet slabs and roller balls on all aspects and in shady areas.