Quick report
Small wet loose avalanches on solar aspects. Many large natural avalanches that occurred within the last storm cycle in the Alpine, at Treeline and Below Treeline. Large roller balls, and loose wet avalanches D1 on steep SE aspects (cornucopia).
Weather
- Air Temp
- H34 L25
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- 5-10cm
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Warm, and mostly clear morning, with clouds rolling in by 14:00 and temps dropping slightly. no precip.
Snowpack
The 10 to 15 cm of snow that had fallen in the last 24 hours has settled to 5cm. Solar crust formed at treeline and below treeline. Hot Pow/settled storm snow at Treeline and pushing into alpine. Other than loose wet avalanches on solar aspects there were no signs of instability in the recent storm snow. MFcr (raincrust) on SW aspect at 7600ft down 10cm.
Avalanche
With vis opening up into the alpine today, we observed multiple large avalanches in the Norway basin D2-3 (2 on the N/NE flank of Granite and 1 on the main N/NE bowl of Norway peak). A large avalanche occurred on the west aspect of E fork falls, the crown nearly running the length of the ridge. we had a better look at the extent of the avalanches on Cornucopia (observed 1/24/24), larger and more destructive than originally thought, running to valley floor on both SE and NE aspects.