Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 04/10/2016
Name: Zach Guy
Date of Observation: 04/10/2016
Name: Zach Guy
Subject: Wet cycle below treeline on north half of compass
Aspect: North East, East, North West
Elevation: 9,000-10,000 ft
Aspect: North East, East, North West
Elevation: 9,000-10,000 ft
Avalanches: See video and photos. Evidence of natural wet cycle below treeline in the past 24 hours or so along hwy 135/Slate River Road corridor. About a dozen wet loose slides on NE aspects, one on NW and one on E, ranging from D1 to D2 in size, and about half of them gouging to the ground. 3 wet slabs on NE aspects below treeline, D1.5 to D2 in size, failing at the ground.
Weather: Warm, scattered clouds, no precip, calm winds
Snowpack: 2″ refreeze over an unconsolidated wet snowpack. Ski pen and boot pen quickly became knee to waist deep. One pit on NE aspect showed fist hard wet/very wet grains throughout, with free water pooling at the March 6th dust/interface about a foot deep in this location. 2 collapses in flat terrain
