Quick report
- Cracking
- Observed
- Collapsing
- Observed
3” in Essex and 8-10” at my high point of 7000. New snow was a little upside down. Light snow with moderate wind in the morning gave way to sun breaks by mid day and on my exit solar aspects were getting wet. While skiing I stuck to north facing trees, had several audible collapses including one with shooting cracks where I turned around. Defensive skiing with ski cuts yielded lots of soft storm slabs, the biggest was about 100’ wide and ran 600-800’.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 6500 ft