Date of Observation: 02/09/2022
Name: jeff banks
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Axtell
Observed avalanche activity: No
Weather: increasing winds > 10,800 to Moderate to Strong for the afternoon
Snowpack: ~10mx15m fracture, whumpf & collapse of Diamond shaped windslab
~2-4 inches deep bordered by corn snow all around, easy to identify as isolated pocket & gauge depth
10,850, #SE, ~33*
a few minutes skinning higher up as we reached the tree limit & the fresh wind slabs were:
gaining in thickness ~10 and deeper
continuous, linking up are bigger swaths of terrain & unavoidable
so bravely ran away.
