Date of Observation: 10/25/2022
Name: Alex R
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Monday afternoon toured up Washington Gulch. One vehicle ahead of us with chains made it to Paradise Divide, but we had a Subaru and parked below Elkton. The road above Elkton had plenty of coverage to ski on. Continued into the center of the South bowl of Baldy and descended along the same route. 14-16” in the upper portion of the South bowl, less in the lower basin. If you skied lightly, you didn’t hit many rocks. The snow in the upper bowl felt supportive, with a consolidated but thin snowpack due to wind and some solar effect on Monday afternoon. Wind loading on the south west ridge about 10,000’.
Drove up again on Tuesday and the road had melted quite a bit below Elkton, but still held about 10” of snow about Elkton. Depending on how much snow we receive in this mid week storm, the road may become difficult for vehicle travel.
Observed avalanche activity: No
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