Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 03/08/2018
Name: Ben Pritchett
Subject: Another view of Gothic Fork and Mt. CB wet slides
Avalanches: Gothic, the Fork; Mt. CB, the Funnel; Mt. CB, Terminator Chutes.
Weather: Warm afternoon with high, thin clouds. Nearby weather stations recorded that high temps reached 40 @ Schofield, 42 in Gothic, 36 on Snodgrass.
Snowpack: Water starting to play a role in avalanche activity. Still mostly confined to snow surfaces, but the spring snow transition has begun.
Photos:
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- Different view of the slide reported by Alex Tiberio (prior observation)
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- Mt. CB, Wet Loose slide triggers a small slab. Is the slab’s weak layer dry or wet?
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- Maybe it’s dry??? Probably a facet/crust sandwich buried in late February.
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- Mt. CB, Wet Loose through the Terminator Chutes
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- Close up of the track, propagating as a narrow slab.
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- Wet debris.
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- The unmistakable gleam of previously wetted surfaces near the alpine.
