Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
- Collapsing
- isolated
We were in the mountains Friday eve until Sunday late, sledding to near harts pass then climbing/skiing blackcap peak with basecamp up the middle fork Pasayten drainage. We saw dynamic and changing snowpack conditions. Friday nite and Saturday we found stable powder in wind sheltered locations at upper elevations with isolated wind slab at upper elevations and wet snow at lower elevations. We heard a couple whumphs on N aspects ~7300’ near blackcap peak in low angle terrain. We were surprised by the high/high/high Sunday forecast we got on our inReach on Sat evening which was quite the upgrade from mod/mod/mod outlook the night before. Saturday nite the rain increased and temps climbed and we heard one big natural slide from our safe camp spot around 5am. Sunday we skinned out and saw several fresh naturals in the D2-2.5 range. Sunday after sunset we snuck out around dead horse and saw debris from at least one new large slide
Avalanche
- Size
- D2.5
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 7000 ft
Saw fresh debris from quite a few natural wet avalanches up to -~D2.5 on the middle fork Pasayten valley. It seemed most occurred early morning Sunday. At least one new large avalanche put debris on the road a bit east of dead horse point sometime during the day on Sunday.