Quick report
We skied N aspects. The snowpack is moist (easy to make a snowball) up to 6400 feet. We did experience some sluffing of the surface snow on steeper terrain features. These sluffs did not propagate, and were relatively easy to manage, but they were enough to entrain a skier. No obvious signs of instability
Weather
The weather was a mixed bag. Mostly cloudy. However, there was a 30-45 minute period of blue skies that added intense solar input to S slopes around 11:00. This quick input was enough to create small wet loose point release slides on solar slopes. Between 2:00 and 2:45 there was an intense graupel storm that deposited several inches of the "ball bearings" on any and all exposed surfaces (including my face, ouch).
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- WL
- Aspect
- S
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 5800 ft
Multiple small natural wet loose avalanches observed on solar (S-SE) aspect slopes after brief solar input occurred between 11:00-11:30am this morning. Point releases appeared on steeper slopes near vegetation and rocky spots on slope.