Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
- Collapsing
- widespread
Stuck to the trad skinner, taking it cautiously. Signs of wind-transported snow were obvious. Sunny skies Warm temps 2' - 4' storm snow Ski pen was only 6" or so... Lots of spackles on the surface... see you later surface hoar ;(
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 11400 ft
Got some steep, east-facing ATL or NTL repeat offenders to go full track. 1) On the skinner, leaving the trees toward the windy ridge we got a collapse and heard a soft sound. After rounding the corner (2 switchbacks later) we could see the slide and cracks from our skin track into a steep feature (annotated image). 2) Just past the windy ridge, went for the traditional line and stepped to the right and there was a big collapse and shooting/deep cracks. The slide went full track propagating back along the windy ridge, but not upslope. 3) Tried to get the east-facing slope above Asher's tree to pop... heard collapses but didn't see any movement and only very localized cracking.