Author: CBAC

  • Judd Falls Outhouse avalanche

    Date of Observation: 01/03/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: billy barr[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Judd Falls TH Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: The slide i heard when i was outside and saw that powder cloud was a good size one. It ran through it’s running zone, across the river depositing much of its…

  • Spoon avalanche

    Date of Observation: 01/01/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Than Acuff[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Gothic Mtn Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Avalanche off Gothic spoon from below the choke lookers left and another smaller pocket below it same side. Appeared to have pulled out after the snow stopped as crown looked sharp(?). Didn’t…

  • West Brush avalanche activity

    Date of Observation: 01/01/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy and Eric Murrow[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: West Brush. We traveled mostly on flat terrain or on southwest aspects below treeline. Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Relative to what we’ve documented so far in the Northwest Mountains, avalanche activity out here was smaller,…

  • Natural off of Ruby today

    Date of Observation: 01/01/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Dave Koz[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Ruby Peak Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Caught this moving snow coming off of Ruby today. [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/DKP_6558.jpg, https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/DKP_6561.jpg” condition=”isnot” value=””] Photos: [/gravityforms] [[accordion id=”my-accordion”] [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”Yes” condition=”is” value=”yes”][accordion_item title=”Avalanche Report #1″ parent_id=”my-accordion” open=”false”] Estimated avalanche date:…

  • Destructive avalanches off of Axtell

    Date of Observation: 01/01/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Mt. Axtell Viewed from Mt. CB Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Several D3 to D3.5 avalanches on Mt. Axtell that ran yesterday. Both wrapped across multiple aspects. [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_2032-Large1.jpg, https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_2023-Large1.jpg” condition=”isnot” value=””] Photos: [/gravityforms] [[accordion id=”my-accordion”] [gravityforms action=”conditional”…

  • Massive avalanches

    Date of Observation: 01/01/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Viewed from Mt. CB. Got a window of so-so vis and could see a handful of peaks in the Northwest Mountains and Gothic. Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Numerous very destructive avalanches, ranging from D3 to D4 in size.…

  • Gothic 7 a.m.

    Date of Observation: 01/01/2022 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: billy barr[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Gothic Observed avalanche activity: No Weather: And you may finally get a rest from my sunrise weather notes as the storm system seems to be moving on. Light but steady snow all day Saturday until stopping around 8 p.m.…

  • Gothic 9 a.m. update: Powder cloud

    Date of Observation: 12/31/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: billy barr[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Gothic Townsite Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: I was outside moving snow (but then, aren’t we all) at 8:50 and heard a noise up on Gothic and then saw- not the slide as there is no visibility- but the…

  • Testing slabs in shallow part of the zone

    Date of Observation: 12/31/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Traveled mostly on easterly aspects below 10,000 ft. Two short tours, one near Brush Creek TH and one near Red Mountain. Observed avalanche activity: No Avalanches: Poor visibility and I did not travel near avalanche terrain. Weather: Moderate snowfall…

  • Gothic 7am weather

    Date of Observation: 12/31/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Billy Barr[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Gothic townsite Observed avalanche activity: No Avalanches: Weather: Thankfully there was no wind yesterday or overnight. A steady, moderate to heavy snowfall with 21″ new, 17″ of which came from sunset to what passes as sunrise. Total water content…