Alpine Avalanche obs from Top of the World
Date of Observation: 02/25/2022 Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Wash Gulch to Top of the World Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Numerous D2-D2.5 avalanches failing on the mid-February junk show with brief views towards the Ruby Range. Lots of action on E-NE facing slopes. Looking at crowns, most likely failed on 2/22 and 2/23. A […]
Near/Below Tree line Avalanche obs from Top of the World
Date of Observation: 02/25/2022 Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Wash Gulch to Top of the World Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Numerous D2-D2.5 avalanches failing on the mid-February junk show with brief views towards the Ruby Range. Lots of action on E-NE facing slopes. Looking at crowns, most likely failed on 2/22 and 2/23 with […]
Ongoing naturals, Washington Gulch
Date of Observation: 02/25/2022 Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Snowmobiled Washington Gulch, skied in Rock Creek area. Traveled on low slope angles on east, south, and west aspects to 11,500 ft. Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Where to start…. Extensive slab activity on almost every steep bit of E and NE terrain from Meridian Lake […]
Cracking, Settling, Sliding
Date of Observation: 02/26/2022 Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Town Ranch to CBMR — GMT course Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Frequent settling, shooting cracks. Several small slides, W, E Weather: Partly cloudy [[accordion id=”my-accordion”] [/accordion]] 5401
Fresh naturals on Snodgrass
Date of Observation: 02/24/2022 Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Coney’s Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: A couple of fresh slab avalanches that ran today on the northwest side of Snodgrass, BTL Weather: Snowpack: Collapse and shooting cracks on a 30 degree slope, NE aspect. [[accordion id=”my-accordion”] [/accordion]] 5400
Shady side to the Sunny side
Date of Observation: 02/24/2022 Zone: Northwest Mountains Route Description: Short tour up Elk Creek via ridge, then up to the Anthracites, standard skin track to ridge. Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Phew…Most avalanches paths facing northeast and east in Elk Creek avalanched. Some ran during the middle of the storm and others very recently with just […]
Double Top fresh slide
Date of Observation: 02/24/2022 Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Double Top Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: See photo. Don’t recall seeing this before. Weather: Snowpack: [[accordion id=”my-accordion”] [/accordion]] 5398
Quick glimpse of some alpine and lots more avalanches
Date of Observation: 02/24/2022 Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: From CBMR, I had brief visibility this afternoon of some alpine terrain around Copper Creek, Deer Creek, and Gothic Peak. Most of the peaks remained socked in. Could also see some terrain around Peanut Lake Road, Washington Gulch, etc. Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Widespread D1 […]
Unusual weak layer
Date of Observation: 02/24/2022 Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: CB Nordic Hill. NE aspect Observed avalanche activity: No Snowpack: The “2022 total BS drought sandbox layer” continues to show unusual behavior. On the Nordic Hill, we systematically trafficked and sluffed that layer before the storm, and got numerous shooting cracks, collapses, and mini slabs when […]
Walrod natural avalanches – third hand report to CBAC
Date of Observation: 02/23/2022 Zone: Southeast Mountains Route Description: Walrod Gulch out Cement Creek. Observed avalanche activity: Yes Avalanches: Two natural avalanches occurred while a person was walking dog(s) out Walrod Gulch in Cement Creek. Large in size; depositing a dangerous amount of snow onto the summer road up Walrod Gulch near the Caves Connector […]