Eagle eye 🦅

Riding at Eagle Pass was awesome with 30cm of recent storm snow and blue skies. Lots of groups out enjoying the fresh snow, and we saw no natural or rider-triggered avalanches. We dug in the snow in a few places to investigate the weak layers in the upper snowpack, and got variable test results, which speaks to the unpredictable nature of persistent slab avalanches. We saw the most reactivity in a test profile at 1800m on a sheltered north aspect, with a propagation saw test failing at 30/100 down 60cm on large surface hoar on a crust. In our investigation we feel that the most likely place to trigger a large persistent slab avalanche is in sheltered, north facing terrain at treeline and below. Especially places where there wasn’t a lot of traffic before the weak layer was buried.