Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
While in the snow globe "low visibility" we were traversing a slope through fresh snow and observed shooting cracks. Experienced shooting cracks in fresh wind drifted snow.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 19
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- 6
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Snowpack
We didn't do anything official, but could feel layers with pole plunges and stomps.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 9900 ft
Above the highest entrance of Peaches we decided to cross one at a time. The first skier traversed and caused the wind slab to propagate and avalanche.