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Tuckerman Ravine

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Quick report

As the pictures show every slope had some sort of wet loose point release and or roller balls. Most of which seem to have started from ice or snow falling off rocks. On our way up left gully hand shears were showing good cohesion between new snow and the hard pack frozen surface underneath. Moguls were still present. I found that the higher up we went the refrozen layer underneath the new snow was becoming less edge-able. The amount of new snow was not as deep the higher up we went. We stopped climbing at the choke of left and skied down from there. The debris in left and underneath head wall was easy to ski through and soft.

Avalanche

Debris from wet loose point releases on every slope of Tuckerman. Observed a skier and boarder in chute for a few hours unable to make turns. When the clouds rolled in I packed up and headed out of the ravine. Later that evening the party came back through hermit lake and told me, The snowboarder caused a wet loose slide and was caught and carried for 40 yards and partially buried. Since he was butt sliding down chute essentially this is the position he was caught in and from what I gather was only buried in about 8 inches of debris. He was able to remove himself from debris on his own and was uninjured.