Date of Observation: 04/16/2023

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Coneys

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Triggered on the rollover at the end of coneys. 11 am ish

Date of Observation: 04/16/2023
Name: Turner Petersen

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Skied 2 laps on the s tube and down to our sleds via camo glades.

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Kicked off a very small wind slab maybe 15 feet wide on my entrance ski cut that ended up entraining my Sluff. Ran maybe 800ft. Wouldn’t bury you but wouldn’t be fun. Took place skiers left of s proper.
Weather: Sunny
Snowpack: Cold 7” on northerlies.

Date of Observation: 04/16/2023
Name: Gunnar Doyle

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Started at Washington Gulch TH, made our way up the ridge to the west of the Spoon. Skied the little spoon to the lookers left of the spoon twice.

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: R.5, D1 Wet Loose triggered by skier. Skier was able to ski out unharmed. The avalanche ran a few hundred feet down the terrain feature.
Weather: Sunny, no winds, 35°
Snowpack: A few inches of fresh snow from Friday night’s storm on top of a crust.

Date of Observation: 04/15/2023
Name: Sean Feese

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Normal sled route out slate to the daisy pass area

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Ski cut one wind slab which triggered on the east face. Shallow, soft ran a few hundred vert. A handful of small windslabs released naturally. East aspect recieved sun midmorning and developed a crust when temps dropped in the afternoon. S face remained dry all day.
Weather: Partly cloudy, breezy. Light snow in the morning.
Snowpack: Overnight temps set up the old snow, though some spots near valley bottom remained wet and the snowmobile cut through. Significant wind loading all day in the alpine on easterly aspects.

Date of Observation: 04/15/2023

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Walrod gulch road, from the parking lot on cement creek road, .2 miles up the trail.

Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches: The available appears to have run mid week during the warm up. Some of the snow/ice chunks were 2-3 feet in diameter. Some tree damage near the base of the hill. Debris stopped at the base of the hill before hitting the main trail.
Weather: Sunny and cool
Snowpack: Dust on fragile crust. About two inches of fresh snow on top of unstable crust.

Date of Observation: 04/12/2023
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Various locations

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Adding a few more cornice falls and older avalanches observed this week to the database.
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Date of Observation: 04/11/2023
Name: Turner Petersen

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: –

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Loose wet avalanche starting in complex terrain on S face of mt cb and hitting aspens at the bottom of a rarely seen slide path above the upper loop.
Weather: 53 in skyland
Snowpack: Flush the dust

Date of Observation: 04/11/2023
Name: Turner Petersen

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: –

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Second hangfire wet slab east face Gibson ridge BTL
Weather: Nuclear
Snowpack: Red

Date of Observation: 04/11/2023
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Morning tour into Peeler Basin, traveling mostly on northerly aspects to 12,000’

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: A few wet slabs on S to SE aspects NTL that ran yesterday, D1.5 to D3. Several large gouging wet loose BTL on SE and E. Plenty of shallow wet loose at all elevations (D1 to D1.5), spanning around to NE aspects at higher elevations and N BTL. More photos later tonight.
Weather: Clear, light winds. Waaaarm.
Snowpack: Marginal refreeze: punchy boot pen and supportive ski pen at 9 am. Felt like the window for good corn on SE was about 9:30 NTL. Still dry powder on high due north; Northeast ATL started rollerballing this morning. Bigger pinwheels as we descended to north BTL, and we triggered a few shallow wet loose involving just the white snow above the dust layer. North quadrant appears to be ways off from water draining into the snowpack for wet slab issues.

Date of Observation: 04/09/2023

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Hunter Hill

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Cornice fall on Hunter Hill
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