Author: CBAC
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Brush Creek TH area – collapse city and remotely-trigger avalanche
Date of Observation: 12/31/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Eric Murrow[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Low elevation east-facing terrain at bottom of Mount Crested Butte above East River Aspect: North, North East, East Elevation: 9,000 – 9,800′ Avalanches: Remotely trigged 3 very small D1’s on east-northeast aspect from a single collapse that propagated…
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Large remote triggered persistent slab
Date of Observation: 12/31/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Mount Emmons Aspect: North, North East, North West Elevation: 9000’ to 12,200’ Avalanches: Remotely triggered a large (D2) persistent slab from about 350 feet away. The slab was about 3 feet thick and 300 feet wide, on a north…
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Bluebird views
Date of Observation: 12/30/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Coney’s Aspect: North East Elevation: N/BTL Avalanches: Good views of the leeward aspects of the Northwest Mountains. Plenty of evidence of storm slab instabilities that ran throughout the storm, D1 to D2. A few slides looked like they broke…
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Email ob from Red Lady skin-track
Date of Observation: 12/30/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”Yes” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Eric Murrow filling out from an email ob ok heres a last name MS siri google please take my ob[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Aspect: South East Elevation: Avalanches: The photo below was taken at approximately 11 am on Wednesday, 12/30. From the skin…
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Evans Basin
Date of Observation: 12/30/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Eric Murrow[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Evans Basin steep easterly shots Aspect: East, South East, South Elevation: 9,500′ – 11,200′ Avalanches: A couple of avalances in steep southeast terrain in Red Lady glades – near treeline type features. Look like storm slabs running on…
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Morning avalanche obs
Date of Observation: 12/30/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Scarp, Peeler, and Gothic Aspect: North East, East Elevation: ATL Avalanches: See photos. Several slab avalanches D2, maybe up to D2.5 on E and NE aspects ATL that likely ran early yesterday. [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_0444-Large.jpg, https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_0439-Large.jpg, https://dev.cbavalanchecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_0438-Large.jpg”…
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Avalanche obs on Whetstone from the highway
Date of Observation: 12/29/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Eric Murrow[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Whetstone Mountain Aspect: North East, East Elevation: near and above treeline Avalanches: Observed natural avalanche on Whetstone at 945am. Several avalanches on far southern end near CB south on east and northeast aspects near treeline, D1-D2 D2 avalanche…
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Gothic 7 a.m.
Date of Observation: 12/29/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: billy barr[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Gothic Avalanches: No visibility to see if any slide activity. Weather: There was 10½” new snow with water total of 0.75″ as the snowpack sits at 32½”. Wind is calm now and the snowfall has stopped. Mild with yesterday’s…
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Storm obs from Slate
Date of Observation: 12/29/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy[/gravityforms] Zone: Northwest Mountains Location: Slate River drainage Aspect: North East, East Elevation: 9,000 to 11,200 ft Avalanches: Decent storm slab cycle last night from Happy to Climax to Schuylkill Ridge along with a few persistent slab avalanches Happy Chutes: Lots of small slabs…
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A lot of bark and some bite too
Date of Observation: 12/28/2020 [gravityforms action=”conditional” merge_tag=”” condition=”isnot” value=”Yes”]Name: Zach Guy, Zach Kinler, Jack Caprio[/gravityforms] Zone: Southeast Mountains Location: Gothic Road Aspect: East Elevation: Below treeline Avalanches: Intentionally triggered a couple of small persistent slabs, about 15″ thick and up to 50 feet wide on small terrain features, failing on fist hard facets…