Quick report
Roadside glassing between Stanley to Ketchum around 2pm to see the extent of wet loose activity during our sunny bluebird day with spring-like temperatures. While the warm up in recent days has been the first in some time, there seems to have been only a moderate wet loose cycle that ran, with most slides running being small in size.
No cracking or collapsing observed due to roadside nature of observation. See avalanche section for more information on instabilities.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Bluebird skies and spring-like temperatures made for a splitter day of weather. Primarily a roadside observation, so cannot speak to wind at ridgeline levels.
Snowpack
This was a short afternoon glassing drive while shuttling gear for work. Multiple small wet loose avalanches ran on what appeared to be a variety of slick crusts on more solar aspects. Many appeared to run during the day today, but likely some ran yesterday or the day prior. With the current weather pattern, it appears we will be burying another variety of crust + facet combos with the upcoming storm on Monday.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 9995 ft
Observed multiple wet loose slides from the road that all ran on W-SW-S aspects at middle and upper elevations. All of these slides were in the D1-2 range and were small in terms of their size relative to how large their paths could run. I would not consider this to have been a widespread wet loose cycle, while there were multiple slides.