Quick report
Observed many avalanches. Some live on WSW side of Bryant that all initiated as loose wet from solar with some pulling out small (D1) slabs in open terrain below cliffs. Observed a couple avalanches that occurred within an hour as we travelled back same route with one new avalanche in upper skier's left side of Bryant Peak Couloir and one new avalanche coming over our skin track from NE side of Bryant. All seemed to be initially triggered from solar/warming but the one on the NE side of Bryant had no solar. Observed some blowing snow near this one's start zone so speculate that some additional wind load triggered it. Also observed new (recent in last couple hours) avalanches under the Tooth running into middle of Pineapple Basin. Observed multiple recent and live avalanches. Multiple storm slabs triggered from wet loose avalanches coming off cliffs/steeps above.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- light
- Rain Elevation
- 4000
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Broken skies with some light precip in the morning. Skies broke mid day with strong solar impact
Snowpack
18-24" of heavy storm snow
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 3
- Aspect
- W
- Trigger
- NL
- Elevation
- 5500 ft
Largest avalanche observed today. Due to added exposure, did not risk getting near crown to investigate bed surface but appears to have failed at interface of storm snow. Smaller 30cm crown stepped down to 70cm but believe it to be deeper deposition zone and did not get deep enought to known PWLs.