Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Snodgrass/Gothic saddle
Date of Observation: 12/11/2020
Name: Alex Tiberio
Subject: Snowpack ripe for failure
Aspect: North East
Elevation: 10500
Avalanches:
Intentionally triggered a D2 Storm Slab on a NNE facing slope. Released about 20 ft below a ski cut. Propagated 20 ft wide running about 500ft downhill. Phone died, couldn’t get pictures.
Weather: Snowing on and off throughout the morning. Sometimes heavy. 6” new snow in gothic. About 8” on the snodgrass/gothic ridge line
Snowpack: Weak. Some preserved surface hoar below the storm snow. Facets to the ground below that. Easy the produce spiderwebbing shooting cracks on More northerly facing slopes
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