Front Range

Observed debris from one small wet slide (in rocky area) on NE aspect ATL, and front 1-2 small slides on SE aspect ATL. Likely occurred during the last week+ of high temperatures.

Clear to partly cloudy skies throughout the morning. Minimal wind above tree line. Nearby Lake Eldora (9,700’) snotel had below freezing temperatures all day Friday, until 11pm. Temps were in the low-mid 30s at that snotel from 11pm Friday until around 8am Saturday; we experienced similar temps at the beginning of our tour out of East Portal.

Dug a quick pit at 11,000’, just above tree line, on an east facing aspect in the Arapaho Lakes drainage, to evaluate the potential for a wet slab in the area. Total depth of 120cm, mostly uniform snowpack (F top few cm at 9:30am, then mostly P to 1F hardness throughout the rest of the snowpack. Roughly 5cm of 4F around 70cm above ground surface). We did not observe any free liquid in the snow pack, or percolation columns. We did not perform any snowpack tests due to time and lack of obvious layers in the snowpack.