Quick report
I saw a few huge slides (destroy trains). I saw several large slides (bury people or cars) and didn't have time to enter most of them as individual Avalanche entries. I saw 70-100 small loose snow avalanches (not large enough to bury people), mostly on E-SE-S-SW aspects in the alpine but some in shadier terrain. I was out of the field before the sun had time to impact W aspects. The loose snow avalanches were primarily sun-driven in rocky, protected areas. Recent winds affected most upper elevation terrain and a lot of exposed middle elevation terrain.
Cracking and collapsing are N/A - no on snow observations.Weather
- Air Temp
- Teens and 20s
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- light
Winds were still moving snow over alpine ridgelines in the Boulder, Smoky, and Sawtooth Mtns. The snow was sublimating or sifting on to slopes below (not wind loading).
Snowpack
Wet rollerballs and snails on some very steep, roadside lower and middle elevation S-SW slopes, but no true wet slides today.
Avalanche
- Size
- D3
- Count
- 7
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 8800 ft
Avalanche observed from top of Baldy on March 6th, estimated occurrence date.