Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
- Collapsing
- widespread
Remote triggered a small pocket of storm snow that sympathetically triggered a slab a 1/2 mile away.
Ascended Teocalli ridge. Snowpack was quite until we gained the ridge at treeline observed collapses that seemed to run up the mountainWeather
- Air Temp
- 29
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- 15
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
clear, calm though evidence of wind overnight or early morning
Snowpack
Shallow and supportive by a suncrust lower down with maybe 5" of recycled powder. As we ascended higher there was more wind effect, hollow sections followed by shallow wind eroded bits with shrubbery sticking out
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 3
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 12200 ft
At about 11500 ft we were ascending the low angle ridge of Teocalli and got a big collapse. A small isolated pocket on a wind drift released probably 500 vertical feet above us, then sympathetically released something higher up in the cliffs, then a slab off a more Eastern aspect probably 1000 feet above us, 100 feet wide, maybe 8" deep and ran maybe 500 feet down the main gully beneath the face