Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
- Collapsing
- widespread
Unique and touchy conditions. Slabs are about 2' thick; they will easily bury you in bigger terrain features now. The most unusual characteristic of today was how much activity we saw in gladed terrain; lots of natural persistent slabs ran today in small openings in the trees, and we got many collapses in the trees. I don't see that often in this area. The slides in the trees were all D1s because they were in small terrain features, but enough to push you into a tree or tree well. Of the three relatively small avalanche paths we got views of, all three had produced avalanches today, either D1 storm slabs or one produced a D2 persistent slab.
Every terrain feature collapsed and cracked. The collapses were about 2 ft deep on our January weak layer (persistent slab problem). The cracking occurred in both the persistent slab and in a new storm slab problem about 8" to 10" deep.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- ~40
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Heavy snowfall, periods of S5. No wind below treeline. Low density snow.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 5
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 9500 ft
Numerous small storm slabs ran naturally, we skier triggered several. Numerous persistent slabs ran naturally, we skier triggered one. One of the persistent slabs was large enough to bury someone, debris looked to be about 6 feet deep.