Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
On our way out to Flattop today we observed an avalanche on the East face of Mount Casey. During our tour in the flattop area, we observed wind slabs and cracking on all ridge lines. Even lower protected ridges. About the top 10cms were wind packed and sitting firm over soft. Tough to say which slopes are the most wind loaded as it looks like winds were swirling from all directions by the looks of the ridge lines. We stuck to conservative terrain as we’ve gotten 100cms of new snow in the last week and we just want to let it settle in before stepping out on avalanche terrain. Pit Elevation-5900 Aspect-NE Incline-35 Depth-260cm Top of pit 260cm dug down to 110cm ECTN24 215cm CT2 Q2 148cm CT5 Q2. 225cm CT23 Q3. 215cm Around 100cm of new snow over the last week. Multiple graupel layers throughout all the new snow. 215cm is the most prevalent graupel layer and is 3cm thick.
Avalanche
Saw a recent avalanche on the East face of Mount Casey. Looked to be after The most recent snow Monday night. Tough to say how big it was from so far away but it looked D2 maybe D3.