Quick report
It was a very warm beautiful day and the snow slowly turned from a harder more cohesive state to a mashed potatoes pack on the surface. This avalanche was roughly 150-200 feet or more across its crown and feel nearly 200-300 feet accumulating about 10 feet of balled up snow chunks near the bottom. This depth fades as you go from the deposition zone to the crown.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2.5 R3
- Type
- WS
- Aspect
- E
- Elevation
- 6800 ft
Observed in Kimmerly Basin at nearly its max elevation this avalanche was triggered by the heat and wet snowpack on 3/1/25 just after lunch early afternoon. This avalanche was seems to have propagated from a track like in the south slope meaning it’s was cause by humans and weather conditions.