Powder and collapses and bears oh my!
zacharystephenmiller,
Tuesday 27th February, 2024 5:20AM
Toured Grizzly Shoulder and Teddy Bear trees today and found ~50cm of new snow overlying the well developed facet layer above the Feb 3rd crust. While breaking trail above 1600m we felt/heard a handful of large collapses and saw localized shooting cracks (<5m) which oriented us to keep to supported slopes and smaller disconnected terrain features.
We also observed a couple of recent avalanche crowns (size 2 estimated) at ~1800m on Cheops’ north aspect in small pieces of open terrain. These looked to have failed on the facet/crust layer.
Beauty of a day out there with a handful of glorious sucker holes and calm winds!

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