Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
- Collapsing
- widespread
Touchy conditions observed today. Overnight wind and an increase in temperature created a stiff slab on S, E, and N aspects between 7,000' and 9,000' in elevation. Shooting cracks were widespread, with one traveling over 100' laterally across the slope. Several remote triggers of D1 avalanches were observed in the vicinity of Windy Ridge, and no less than 5 to 6 large collapses were heard on the tour.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 8800 ft
While setting the skin track up Windy Ridge, our group remotely triggered a D1 avalanche in the Super Bowl area. Crown was approximately 80 feet downhill of the skin track.