Avalanche

Out of Jewel Basin Yurt, headed over to Black Lake

Erin JamrozSwan Range
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Quick report

Cracking
isolated

On S facing slopes there is pretty hard surface crust that gets more and more solid/hard as you ascend in elevation. It is knife hard above 6,500. On N facing slopes all of the same layers existed, but were softer and better bonded. Inside hand pits, it was much more difficult to get them to fail or propagate as opposed to the S. As the temps warmed up we saw isolated cracks on the skin track out, but otherwise did not experience any instability. NE ridges have scattered cornices along them. Pit Profile: app.propagationlabs.com/ob/o7CJEhR8gS1ANob77jQj

Avalanche

Lots of avalanche debris on S facing slopes, it looked like there was some relatively recent as well as much older.