Aspen

Adding a pile of avalanches that ran during the weekend storm. Also took a closer look at the big slide off the west side of Baldy. The debris reached valley floor, had 3’ to 4’ chunks of hard slab in it, suggesting it was a step down at some point. The debris pile was probably 25 feet deep.

Still some light drifting happening in isolated areas. cloud cover: few; wind loading: light; snow avail for transport: small smounts

Crown profile on the south-facing ATL Galena avalanche showed the avalanche failed on January dryspell facets below a thin crust (see video and profile).  The slide broke below a knife-hard slab that formed during the mid-January extreme wind events.  The crown was 2 to 3 feet deep, with the upper 2/3rds composed of soft, recent snow, and the bottom third hard slab.  . Covered a lot of ground on different aspects, and windloaded south to southeast on lower angle slopes continues to bark while other aspects were quiet. 2 large, scary collapses on SE aspects NTL (one on Cinammon around 11,600' and one above Rock Creek about 11,700). Got a handful of small collapses on similar but smaller features.