Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
- Collapsing
- widespread
Toured Fish Creek Knob from the quarry. About 5 inches of new snow, where not disturbed. Active wind loading, with winds around 40mph. Above 2000 ft: Observed continuous whumphing and cracks shooting up to 50 ft. One small remote trigger avalanche (~20ft wide, ran about 80 ft). Two ski cuts produced slides of similar size.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 28
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- intense
- Recent Snowfall
- 15
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Snowing and blowing
Snowpack
Storm slab on a stout crust. Hasn’t had time to bond. Very sensitive to triggers.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Aspect
- NW
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 2200 ft
Very sensitive storm slab. 1 remote trigger. 2 ski cut avalanches. All on relatively mellow terrain.