Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 9 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 76 m
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Loose
- Slab Thickness
- 28 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- South
- Avalanche Problem
- Wet Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3231 m
Spent the day in Mary Ellen Gulch making observations and familiarizing myself with terrain. Skied the southern aspects before 10 am and got out from underneath the steep paths and well away from run outs. The wet activity started around 10:30am and lasted well into the afternoon. The last significant release was between 14:00-15:00 and ran several hundred vertical feet. The drainage was a mixed bag of orange-peel, wind-effected snow, settled powder, and sun-effected mank. Good, safe skiing was found on mid elevation terrain features in the middle of the drainage. Snowmobilers were getting after it with their high marking in the Outhouse Chutes and the Y-Not zone. WPG had a blast skiing around the compass it seemed.