Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Group of 3 riding snowmobiles. Traveled from Catherine creek sno park over flagstaff, boulder park, and rode mostly around Bennett peak. Group was fairly conservative traveling in mostly the trees and an old burn around Bennett Peak. We did observe naturally occurring D1 avalanches in the Alpine in the wilderness, but no activity in the area we rode in. Elevation varied from 5k ft up to around 7k ft. Wind was moving a lot of snow and winding loading was noted in many areas. Wind gust up to 40mph estimated. Transport and loading mostly noted to east /Southeast facing slopes. 1.5ft new snow noted @ 7000ft from recent storms. It snowed most of the day after some early sunshine.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 7500 ft
Small d1 to d1.5 natural trigger with storm Wind loading.