Quick report
3” of new snow around 4000’ increasing to 5-8” @7000’ Thick hard slabs of drifted 1F hard snow ranging from 2-3ft deep These slabs rested on 3-5” of knife hard crust at the base of the snowpack.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 36@3400ft
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Intermittent flurries with periods of hard blowing snow
Avalanche
- Size
- D2 R2
- Type
- U
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 7000 ft
Ripped off the rock slabs on the NW ridge of Penrose down each of the three main gullys. Ran almost the full length of the path to only a few hundred feet above Skiumah lake with toe of debris about 2 feet deep.