Avalanche

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Quick report

The snowpack was roughly 130cms in above 8500 feet. weak strutctue down low with facets sitting on a melt freeze crust the slap it was sitting on was roughly 100+cms at 8500ft i did not to offical test but hand shears indicated week snowpack, toured and rode sleds on >30 degree terrain all day east aspect up. to 9000 feet and did not experience any collapases which was spooky because my group was expecting them, and looking at the structure knowing that the pack is unstable.

Avalanche

Size
D2
Aspect
E
Trigger
N
Elevation
8900 ft

3 different slide paths realse, my guess its it was a sympathic relases sometime during the last storm.