Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 01/11/2019
Name: ADB

Subject: Snodgrass-GFP freshner
Aspect:
Elevation: BTL

Avalanches:

Weather: Obscured skies morphed into broken skies. Temperatures warmed up to around freezing. Light winds and one burst of moderate wind that blew snow up on the road for a minute or two.

Snowpack: Less than 2 inches of new snow, closer to one inch.

No cracking or collapsing observed on filled in skin tracks or newly formed skin tracks.

Disclaimer: These are very hasty tests with non standardized column dimensions.
Performed dirty hand tests:
2 on SE Slope were within CT10-15 with Q3 shears. Both were very sluggish on buried surface hoar (?) about 8 to 12 inches below snow surface. (skin track in trees below the RMBL weather station).
1 on W/SW aspect had CTN. Did find a 1F crust below 12 inches of F hardness snow. (road cut above the RMBL weather station.
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Location: Kebler Pass Area
Date of Observation: 01/10/2019
Name: Dave Neben

Subject: Red Lady Glades – Pizza day crust
Aspect: South
Elevation:

Avalanches:

No signs of instability, previous sluff in the bowl as reported.

Weather: Clear skies with some overcast clouds developing, temp around 22 with little to no wind.

Snowpack: Snowpack was supportive with variable conditions, light to firm crust mixed with good snow all the way up and down, wind scoured at the fence posts.
The descent was difficult at times due to the breakable crust.

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Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 01/10/2019
Name: Alex Tiberio

Subject: Snodgrass Obs
Aspect: North East, East
Elevation: 10,200

Avalanches:

Weather: Thin cloud cover and pretty warm

Snowpack: Dug a pit just north of the snodgrass saddle on a northeast face ECTN13 failing under the storm snow but not propagating. Less than 5 minutes later got a massive collapse with shooting cracks on a slope right around 30 degrees.

Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 01/10/2019
Name: CBPSP

Subject: Fredo’s Apron
Aspect: North
Elevation: 11,150′

Avalanches:

CBMR 11,150′ N aspect cross loaded feature from SE winds below large cliff band. AE-SS-R1-D2-O. Propagated 175′

Weather: Increasing high clouds throughout the day high temp of 34 with calm winds.

Snowpack: HS 43 with approx. two inches of settlement today. In sheltered areas snow weak and faceted with specific ares of wind stiffened snow. Previously unaffected area from skier traffic or explosives.

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Location: Paradise Divide Area
Date of Observation: 01/10/2019
Name: Roscoe

Subject: No hate from the Slate
Aspect: North East
Elevation: 11,400

Avalanches:

There were signs of Avalanche activity on the lower slopes and rollovers , similar to what what was posted in an OB yesterday . Not much on the upper slopes .

Weather: Grey Bird Day calm and warm

Snowpack: In the zone we were in the slopes were not terribly affected by wind. Snow was dense and supportive. I did not seem this area received as much snow on the last cycle as the Kebler Pass Corridor.

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Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 01/10/2019
Name: Evan Ross And Eric Murrow

Subject: Check in on Coney’s skier triggered avalanche
Aspect: North East, East
Elevation: 9,800 to 10,800ft

Avalanches:

SS-ASr-R1-D2-O. 1/9

Weather: Calm winds. Partly cloudy sky and warm feeling temps

Snowpack: HS in the 100-120 range on average. Ski pen around 20cm and SH on much of the snow surface. A few large collapses in the terrain but no shooting cracks.

The 1/9 remote triggered avalanche failed just below the holiday slab on 1.5mm NSF. This layer of NSF was about 5cm thick. Crown hight Varied between 1 to 4 feet thick. The thicker part of the slab was on a wind-loaded terrain feature. Slope angles on the bed surface were in the 34 to 36 range. East facing aspect at 10,360ft.

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Location: Paradise Divide Area
Date of Observation: 01/09/2019
Name: Zach Kinler

Subject: Quick Gothic Townsite Tour
Aspect: East, South East
Elevation: 9,600

Avalanches:

No Gully Washers but many D1-D2+ avalanches Below, Near and Above Tree line on Gothic’s East side including 1 that ran during the tour. See pictures.

Weather: Sunscreen re-application day, calm winds, temps warming above freezing.

Snowpack: Generally ~ 30cm new snow, surface remaining dry in the shade and becoming wet in the sun.
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