Author: CBAC
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More Weak Snow Obs…
Date of Observation: 01/22/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Evan Ross & Jared Berman[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Anthracite Range Aspect: South East, South Elevation: 9,500-11,500 Avalanches: A few small loose snow avalanches coming out of steep terrain. Noticed a couple on east BTL, and a couple on south NTL. Weather: Mostly Cloudy. On and…
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Garbage sluffs
Date of Observation: 01/22/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Mt. Axtell Aspect: North, North East Elevation: 9,400 – 11,800′ Avalanches: On a north aspect near treeline, we skier triggered a facet sluff that entrained the entire snowpack to the ground. It ran about 1,000 vertical feet, D1.5 in size.…
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Baxter Basin/ Daisy Pass walkabout
Date of Observation: 01/21/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Eric Murrow[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Slate River to Baxter/Daisy near treeline area Aspect: North, North East, East, North West Elevation: 9,000′ – 11,400′ Avalanches: visibility was often obscured but glimpsed a handful of very small debris piles below steep rocky areas – would…
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Quick jaunt around near treeline slopes
Date of Observation: 01/20/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Eric Murrow[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Sunny side of Mount Baldy Aspect: East, South East, South Elevation: 9,600′ – 11,500′ Avalanches: nothing new to report Weather: Light snow and mostly cloudy skies in the morning gave way to mostly clear skies by around 11am.…
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Summary of persistent weak layers on the snow surface
Date of Observation: 01/19/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=””] Photos: [/gravityforms]
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Sugar Shack
Date of Observation: 01/17/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: East Beckwith Aspect: East Elevation: 10,000 – 11,600′ Avalanches: None Weather: Light northwest winds. Partly to mostly cloudy. Snowpack: We traveled on several steep east facing slopes near and above treeline without signs of instability. A lot of ski pole…
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wind slab hunters
Date of Observation: 01/16/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Various valley locations near Crested Butte Aspect: North East Elevation: 8900-9200′ Avalanches: None Snowpack: We targeted a handful of obvious windloaded features from strong valley winds near town. Wind drifted slabs were 2″ to 5″ thick, pencil hard. Some would…
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WEEKLY SNOWPACK/ WEATHER SUMMARY SUMMARY 1/15/21
Zone: Crested Butte Backcountry Date: 1/15/2021 Name: Jared Berman, Zach Guy This week’s action consisted of extreme winds out of the northwest from Wednesday night (1/13) into Friday morning (1/15). Here’s the weekly summary showcasing how this event impacted our snowpack.
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Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore
Date of Observation: 01/15/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy, Zach Kinler, Jared Berman[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: West Brush Creek towards Coffee Pot Pass Aspect: East, South, West Elevation: 9,000 to 12,800′ Avalanches: We intentionally triggered a hard slab avalanche on a small, heavily windloaded terrain feature on an east aspect…
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Wind Board Is The New Pow Bro
Date of Observation: 01/15/2021 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Evan Ross[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Kebler to Scarps Ridge Elevation: 9,000-12,000 Avalanches: Nothing new observed Weather: Few clouds, with continued moderate to strong winds Snowpack: Covered ground and moved around, just trying to get a better idea of conditions after the wind event. Mostly just…