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Paradise

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Quick report

New snow falling steadily throughout the day, observed snow blowing over cornices on the ridge west of the Skyline Trail beyond which the terrain drops off towards the Nisqually Glacier. Observed sluffing on SW aspect of Panorama Point

Avalanche

Size
D1
Aspect
SW
Trigger
N
Elevation
6400 ft

Hard to see in the picture but there was some, small scale natural sluffing (?) of recent snowfall on steep slopes below Panorama Point, probably on 12 or 13 December. Could not have been triggered as Paradise was closed Thursday and the only skiers there before me went up a different route.