Avalanche
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Rob Millspaugh
Quick report
Took advantage of today's improved lighting to look for more recent avalanches:
- Runnels on all aspects up to roughly 8000' indicates recent rain reached this elevation.
- D2-D3.5 natural slab avalanche on all aspects up between 7000' and 8000'.
- Slabs failed at varying depths, possibly on early March crusts. Slabs failing on NW aspects appeared deeper and possibly failed on buried weak layers.
- It appears most if not all slab avalanches ran on 3/24 or early 3/25. (Based on review of photos taken 3/25).
- Today's avalanche activity was limited to small loose wet. (Based on comparing morning and afternoon observations).
- Avalanches were larger south of Holland Lake.
D2-D3.5 slab avalanche likely occured 3/24.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- ~8000'
Gusty Southeryly winds at valley bottom. Clouds started building at 3pm
Avalanche
- Size
- D3 R2
- Count
- 10
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 7600 ft
D2-D3.5 slab avalanches likely occured 3/24. All aspects 7000-8000'. Will continued adding avalanche events.