Date of Observation: 02/23/2022
Name: Rob Strickland

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: More skin track maintenance… Glady.
The trail is in good shape.
Made sure to give the East shot on ascent before ridge line a wide birth. I don’t think that has popped yet… also gave cornices a wide margin.

Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches: East shots filled in today. Lots of collapses in low angle S/SE; some cracking and rippling from skier weight on decent, but too low angle to move.
Weather: S2 about 1”/hr while touring.
Snowpack: Getting deeper!
Cornices are back after dropping them yesterday…
Ski pen +/- 8”; storm snow +/- 18” NTL

Date of Observation: 02/23/2022
Name: Jeff Writer

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Skinned up Walrod

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Slide path just above Caves loop trailhead went last night, buried road with ~15 feet of snow.

Date of Observation: 02/23/2022
Name: Cosmo Langsfeld

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Cement Creek Ranch

Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches:
Weather: ~4.5 inches in the last 24 hours
Snowpack:

Date of Observation: 02/22/2022
Name: Rob Strickland

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Standard maintenance lap up the lady

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: NTL and ATL east facing slopes were primed and mostly popped naturally.
Cornice drop with moderate propagation R2D2.
Lots of collapses and cracks near skis on ascent.
Weather: Partly cloudy S1 at times.
Breezy NTL.
Snowpack: 5” – 8” new
14” – 24”+ in wind loaded terrain

Date of Observation: 02/22/2022
Name: Ben Ammon

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: North and Northeast facing terrain above Gothic Road

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Numerous 25cm deep soft slabs running on the old snow surface, which was 1-1.5mm FC. Any terrain steeper than 35 degrees ran naturally or was touchy to ski triggers. The largest slide observed was about 300′ wide and ran onto Gothic Road sometime around 1pm, between our first and second laps, D1.5, photos attached. Similar terrain in less sheltered areas where the old snow surface was a variable mix of windboard and facets produced some cracking but was much more stubborn or wouldn’t slide at all.
Snowpack: HST at 1500 was 25cm

Photos:

Date of Observation: 02/22/2022

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Gothic Road

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Nothing big, but made me decide to shorten the dog walk. This was on the road to Gothic. It was along first little downhill in the first tree grove. Look natural or remote triggered from below. About 75 yards across, sliding from 10 to 30 feet to the road. Crown looked to be about 6 to 8 inches, basically the new snow on hard frozen layer.

Date of Observation: 02/22/2022
Name: Theresa Henry

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Traveling north out Gothic Road about 1.5 miles from Snodgrass TH.

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Noticed ski tracks on NE facing glades (about a mile out) and saw that skiers had traveled safely back on road. I xc skied with dog about 1.5 miles and noticed a slide directly above the road, large shooting cracks (see pic 1) taken at 1:42pm. I took some pics and turned around. On way back for the next 1/2 mile I noticed several more slides which had just occurred. I may have unknowingly triggered some of them or they naturally slid and I have impeccable timing. Some slides ran to the road over my ski tracks, about a foot or two deep. Avalanches occurred between 1:30-1:45
Weather: 20 degrees, hazy sun barely poking out of thin clouds
Snowpack: 6-8 inches new snow, turned wet and heavy

Photos:

Date of Observation: 02/22/2022
Name: Cosmo Langsfeld

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Cement Creek Ranch

Observed avalanche activity: No
Weather: 3-4 inches since beginning of storm.

Date of Observation: 02/19/2022
Name: Josh Jones

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Cement Mountain Horse Basin 9000′ – 11400′

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: A small loose dry avalanche triggered by the previous party near the ridge at 11300′

Snowpack: BTL Soft facets mixed with sun-crusts on NW terrain. NTL soft facets mixed with thin isolated wind slabs

Date of Observation: 02/19/2022
Name: Rob Strickland

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Loop

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Sluff on NE pitch NTL.
Ski cut start zone… and you guessed it… sluff.

Weather: Sunny and calm

Snowpack: Weak overall with crusts on south and some wind effect on North…
Sheltered NE woods skied nice.