Quick report
Today we searched for good snow to honor friends lost. At 5,600’ on a N aspect a hand pit found about 30 cm of weak snow on top of stronger snow. This snow was well bonded to faceting knife hard melt forms. After digging by hand and ski pole 20 cm into the knife hard melt forms without finding any changes we carried on.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- L
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 5800 ft
Loose dry avalanches were easily triggered and equally easily managed on steep N aspects above 5,500’.