Aspen

Observed several avalanches that were not previously coded, some from late February and a few from this last storm that likely failed on March 6. Keep in mind, if we were getting natural D3 avalanches 4 days ago, it is going to take some time before we aren't worried about human triggering similar-sized avalanches on those aspects and elevations.

Warm and sunny morning with increasing cloud coverage by about 10:00 A.M with moderate to strong winds moving snow along ridgelines.

Several snowpits on wind-loaded slopes on the east side of the ridge and then the wind-sheltered or scoured west side of the ridge showed a very similar snowpack with the main difference being the thickness and hardness of the slab. Extended column tests were consistently showing propagating failures after 20 taps on wind-loaded slopes where the slab was P hard and about 70-90cm thick, and then showing propagating failures with just 1 to 4 taps on wind-sheltered, northeast-facing slopes where the slab was 1F hard and about 50-60cm thick. This really highlights the most dangerous slopes, where it will be the easiest to trigger an avalanche.