Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
My group ascended Right Gully around 9AM to ski the snowfields and descended around 1PM. On the ascent, we heard and observed running water throughout the snowpack, especially higher up in the gully where the snowpack is thinner. On our descent, we observed significant melting that required careful skiing. I and another member of a separate group navigated Right Gully on skis, but others chose to down climb. Either way, the potential consequences of falling in this terrain while unlikely are currently high due to rapid melting and exposed rock bands. We managed to kick off isolated wet slabs, but there is not much more available snow to slide. hot up on the pile right gully is kinda thin snow for Chanukah?
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 4700 ft
While descending Right Gully just after 1pm, a member of my group stepped onto an isolated windslab on a southeast aspect that had grown extremely wet and separated from the ice crust below. After clearing the area, the skier was able to kick off the slab and get it to fully slide. Relatively harmless, isolated issue in a location with potential consequences mitigated due to the size of the slab, isolation, and lack of skiers ascending right gully.