Avalanche

HW 2 East of Stevens pass

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Quick report

Broken clouds, calm to light winds. Felt like a spring pow day. I travelled on east and south-east aspects up to 6200'. Snow started at 4600', just a few inches of cold but unfrozen spring-like snow. I put my skis on at 5100' where coverage was consistent 6" to 3'. There was 0 to 6" of storm snow on top of a 1F rain crust. Below that was wet snow that went from fist-to-1F, crust-to-ground. I didn't break through the rain crust while skiing or while jumping on test slopes. I saw a lot of evidence of wind transport on an east facing ridge across the bowl from where I traveled (third photo). At 6200' on top of a ridge there was 130cm of snow. The storm snow was pleasantly not too dense during my first lap at 10:50. For my second lap at 11:30, it was sticky wet pow.

Avalanche

First photo: ~5400', east facing slope, wet loose. Most likely occurred on 11-08. Natural. No humans caught. D2. Second photo: Many many roller balls on south and east aspects. Most likely occurred on 11-08 but I did see activity begin again starting around 11:00