Montana Crest

Beautiful day in the backcountry around RMR. An inversion brought warm temps and the sun was baking the snowpack on south facing slopes around noon. Melting on trees was a good indicator that things were warming up. A quick pit yesterday showed obvious layers that could cause problems if the top layer started to have some cohesion which the warming temps gave it. This size 3 avy was skier triggered as they were ski cutting the top of the slope. The slide easily propagated as it moved down the hill.

Inversion brought warm temps to the alpine. Sun warmed the upper layers of the snowpack, avy was slide on old surface hoar from back in Nov