Quick report
With cold temperatures overnight, a 10-15cm thick refreeze sat on top of a wet to saturated snowpack. Last week's weather created a widespread cycle on all aspects near the treeline and above. The max size we observed was D3.5, but I'm sure if you went hunting, you could find some D4s. If it was steep enough to slide, it probably did. N facing is probably still sheading some cornices and small slides.
Avalanche
- Size
- D3.5
- Count
- 3
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 7000 ft
The entire start zone pulled out and ran down to upper Gieger Lake (1,800'), taking out a considerable number of trees. It looks like S and E aspects ran the biggest and earliest, followed by N facing later in the cycle.