Avalanches: cornice dribble on E slope triggered an impressively wide D2 LW ~40* across from river bend
Weather: Clear sky, light winds at ridgeline @ 12:00 increasing to moderate in the valley floor by 13:00
T: Lo -6C @ TH @ 7:30
0C @ 10,000 @ 11:00
~9:30 On 1st lap noticeably colder as we descended to valley floor
Snowpack: 4-6” re-freeze at all elevations on open slopes.
less so to no refreeze in the dense high N facing pines
appears despite the inversion that radiative & convective cooling did the job on open slopes & the re-freeze was consistent with the previous 2 days in the same zone

Avalanches: Evidence of wet loose activity from the past few days on low elevation northerly aspects, in addition to previously observed wet loose on sunnier aspects.
Weather: Few thin clouds. Hot temps; high of 50F at 10,200 ft. Light winds.
Snowpack: Handpit at 10:30 a.m. on an E aspect NTL had very wet grains in to top 20 cm, and moist snow below that There was an ice lens about 30 cm deep from previous pooling water that had refrozen overnight. Dense, wind affected snow at higher elevations appeared to be handling the warm-up better; remained supportive through mid-day except near rock bands, where skis were punching through. Lower elevation trees were unsupportive in the afternoon.

Avalanches: See photo. Ran between 10:30 and 12:30 today. Point release looks to have been just below the cornice at the top of Gibson Ridge. E aspect at the S end of Gibson Ridge.
Weather: Bluebird
Snowpack:

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Avalanches: Fresh D2 wet loose avalanche ran today off of Gibson Ridge (East aspect BTL) and a handful of D1 to D1.5 wet loose above treeline in the Ruby Range (S, SE aspects) that ran in the past day or two.
Weather: Hot temps, clouds increasing in the afternoon. Calm wind.
Snowpack: At 3 pm, the snowpack was unsupportive; boot pen was knee+ deep. On an east aspect BTL, we found water had moved through the entire snowpack and was pooling along several crust layers 30-50 cm deep but draining deeper into the snowpack.

Gibson Ridge, East, 10,000′

Mineral Point, South-Southeast, 11,700′

Hancock, SE, 11,800′

Avalanches:
Weather: Clear sky, calm/light winds at ridgeline @ 9:00 increasing to strong NW by 10:30
T: Lo -6C @ TH @ 6:30
0C @ 9:00 @ 10,900
Snowpack: W @ 10,900 ridgeline popped off a 4- 6” thick (Pencil hard) plywood sized wind slab overlying 10mm facets on a 20* slope wind whale
N 10,000-10,900 alternating pencil hard windslab & cohesion less facet wallowing ~12” deep of impressive grain size.
no other signs of instability, but our timing was early for the corn cycle so wouldn’t have seen anything. A few short wallow sections skiing up SE ~ 10:30 sheltered in open glades.
Snow in general seemed shallow but dense E-S-W

Avalanches: handful of natural D1-1.5 wet loose initiating in steep and extreme terrain on SE-SW facing terrain all elevations in Ruby Range. Other southerly slopes appeared well behaved with little moving snow. DId observe wet slab/mud slide adjectnt to Kebler Pass road this evening (photos)
Weather: Warm, very light westerly winds in afternoon. Clear, with strong radiation. no wind transport observed.
Snowpack: Snow surfaces warmed on all but high northwest-north facing terrain near and above treeline. All other aspects moistened and become wet in afternoon to 20cm deep. Surfaces started to re-freeze 5pm in shade. did not dig for lingering PS structure, but did ski steep northerlies, cautiously. Around 1730 surfaces in shade began to re-freeze, but felt wet grained snow extended 30cm deep, losing cohesion late in day.

D1.5 wet loose Afley lower right corner

Schuykill Peak D1 Wet lOose

Wet slab/mud slide Kebler Pass

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