Avalanche

Mountain Washington

Tyler PatnoPresidential Range
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Quick report

Cracking
isolated
Collapsing
isolated

Huntington ravine mostly stripped to MFC at middle elevation, all aspects. Refrozen loose/wet debris throughout. Alpine zone mostly knife hard refrozen milky rime w/ poorly bonded pockets of fist/4f on eastern/southeastern aspect. Extends into start zones on middle elevations, eastern presis. Tucks: wind slabs. south/southeast aspects loaded with 5-18cm new snow moderately well bonded to MFC. East/northeast aspects are a mix of 2 different pencils hard windboards (12/21- dark with pine needles P- , 12/22-bright white p+), MFC, and new wind slabs. New avalanche on chute from overnight 12/22 to 12/23- scoured the choke/down to MFC but left isolated wind slabs on the sides, left gully a mix of 2 windboards from last 2 days and new/refrozen sastrugi in start zone.

Avalanche

Chute. Occurred overnight 12/22. No crown. New snow. Scoured slide path to MFC, left wind slabs at edges.