Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
- Collapsing
- isolated
Toured into beehive today. While skinning through the meadow below Tyler’s, we experienced a large collapse, easily 30x30. It sounded pretty deep, probably occurred on a density change near the crust. While boot packing, we found snow about hip deep. Non-wind affected snow was right side up and stable at high elevations. Wind was pretty light, but we observed some stiff snow. While skiing a nw chute (not wind affected), we got some loose sluffs to run a few hundred feet. On an ne facing slope at 10.5k we watched a skier trigger a small sluff that grew into a d1.5-2 size avalanche, it appeared to run out to the flats below the line. This line generally has some loading about a third of the way down where it turns more east. We opted to ski another slope. With a few ski cuts, we got the wind slabs at the top of the line to clear out. The deepest were around 3ft. The sun was in and out all day, with a random assortment of slopes seeing some slight crusts forming.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 10400 ft
On an ne facing slope at 10.5k we watched a skier trigger a small sluff that grew into a d1.5-2 size avalanche, it appeared to run out to the flats below the line (no picture). This line generally has some loading about a third of the way down where it turns more east. We opted to ski another slope. With a few ski cuts, we got the wind slabs at the top of the line to clear out. The deepest were around 3ft.