Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Toured up little st Joe and exited via pinball wizard. Wind was strong out of the west at ridge top with active transport occurring. Lower down winds were gusty and swirling from multiple directions. Minor cracking observed underfoot in the top 4-6 in of snow. One D .5 windslab (4 in deep x 20 ft wide) triggered at approximately 7k feet in pinball wizard off the west facing side of the gully. Saw extensive evidence of a natural cycle during the storm this week. Most had crowns partially filled in. Two of these naturals had run into pinball wizard. One D 1.5 at approx. 7.5 k off the East wall (didn’t get a photo), the other a D3? that ran almost to the bottom of the gully. It entered pinball at approx. 7200 ft. We did not see a crown line in the bowl above pinball which leads us to believe it either was filled in by wind or started lower down out of our view from the ridge. There was 5ish inches of new snow on the bed surface of this slide. The debris pile was at 6300 feet and estimated to be 20 feet deep at the toe. Pinball had good coverage all the way down. Lots of trees down on the bass creek trail, mostly on the section where the trail is on the s side of the creek. We skied out to about a mile from the car
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 3
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 7500 ft
Saw extensive evidence of a natural cycle during the storm this week. Most had crowns partially filled in. Two of these naturals had run into pinball wizard. One D 1.5 at approx. 7.5 k off the East wall