Quick report
Triggered a couple of small facet sluffs, including one that briefly carried a rider (see above). Cloud cover kept it warm the whole tour - felt a bit like a greenhouse. By 12:30pm we had sizeable pinwheels occuring below 9,800 ft. Top 8" or so of the snowpack was wet in the valley bottom by early afternoon.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AR
- Elevation
- 10150 ft
One of our party trigged a small D1 facet sluff on a rollover and was carried about 20 feet. He stayed on top of it and was fine. The sluff had some characteristics of a wet loose avalanche as the surface layer was wet.