Cream

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/28/2021
Name: Zach Guy

 

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Location: Washington Gulch
Aspect: South, South West
Elevation: N/ATL

 

Avalanches: Nothing new that wasn’t reported yesterday morning.
Weather: Thin overcast to broken, greenhousing. Light summit winds.
Snowpack: Rec skiing so we spent the day traveling in terrain where we didn’t expect to find instabilities: non-windloaded, south and southwest aspects. The 1/19 crust (over facets) is about 5cm thick and did not produce any signs of instability on steeper terrain. On flatter slopes, we got a couple of collapses where the crust was thinner. There’s about 45 cm slab up to 4F on the 1/19 layers.

 

Avy 2 Observation Tour-Washington Gulch

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/28/2021
Name: IAN MCDONALD

 

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Washington Gulch – a little past Coney’s
Aspect: North East
Elevation: 10500 ft

 

Avalanches: None observed
Weather: Temperature: 30F
Sky: Broken
Wind: Calm
Precip: None
Snowpack: Our group dug 3 pits, height of snow ranged from 125-109cm.
Easy CT results: (3,8,9) SC
Moderate ECTP results: (10,11,16) SC
PST END (40/100,45/100, 65/100)
All results were on the same layer that ranged from 40-45cm depth from surface on the interface of the recent storm.
We observed 3 collapses on flat terrain during the day.
Skied terrain in the lower 30 degree range.

 

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Pow day

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/27/2021
Name: Steve Banks

 

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Red Lady Glades
Aspect: South East, South
Elevation: 9,800-12,000

 

Avalanches: Noticed a small fresh looking windslab release from the center of RLB. D1 and maybe a bit older but the crown still looked fresh as compared to this mornings ski tracks. Looks like something significant in 4th bowl of Axtell, though my guess is cornice fall and/or windslab release and not persistent slab.
Weather: Sunny, cool and breezy up high. Snow surface stayed dry despite strong solar. Lots of snow moving near and above treeline. Temps stayed cold as new cloud layer came in after noon.
Snowpack: It’s getting supportive! HS roughly 135 cms as average around the terrain we traveled. More like 90 cms well below treeline. Could feel the old buried crusts in a couple spots, and the pack became quite weak at lower elevations.

 

Wash Gulch Wandering

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/26/2021
Name: Ben Ammon

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Coney’s and Snodgrass
Aspect: North East, East, South, South West, West
Elevation: B/NTL

Avalanches: Observed debris below the West Face of Gothic. Looked fairly fresh but visibility was mediocre so hard to say from when, could not see start zones well enough to tell.
Weather: Overcast with periods of broken skies until around 230pm, with on and off S-1 and very light to calm winds. After 230pm winds were moderate from NW and S1 snowfall.
Snowpack: Storm snow much more supportive today, 4F to F+ right above the 1/19 interface. Traveled a few of the same zones Saturday on the tail end of the largest snowfall and could still feel old tracks despite very deep conditions, but today was a different story! Traveled on terrain up to the low 30 degree range facing NE, E, S, SW, and W. Observed no signs of instability, observed generally excellent ski quality.

 

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Kebler Pass Area

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/24/2021
Name: Evan Ross

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Elevation: 9,500-12,000

Avalanches: 1 small storm slab from Saturday 1/24. North aspect at 10,000ft.

Weather: Overcast. Pulses of snow, ramping up the most in the afternoon. Picked up 3 to 4″ of new snow today.

Snowpack: Traveled through lots of terrain, but mostly lower angled slopes. Not much for red flags until we were riding slopes in the low 30-degree range on E, SW and W aspects between 11,000-12,000ft. Farther running shooting cracks in this terrain make it clear that we didn’t want to travel on anything big or much steeper. These slopes were upper BTL and NTL type terrain and didn’t have recent wind-loading.

Red Lady Glades

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/24/2021
Name: Sasha Legere

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Red Lady Skin Tracks
Aspect: South East
Elevation: 11800

Avalanches: Watched it slide from the Red Lady skin track. No obvious trigger. Possible natural slide but did see some tracks on the ridge above the slide on our descent so possibly remote trigger.
Weather: Low visibility. Light snow. No wind.
Snowpack: Storm Slab

 

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Red Lady Glades

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/24/2021
Name: Bo Torrey (Public)

 

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Location: Red Lady Glades 11,800′ Southeast Aspect (38.8694561, -106.9856561)
Aspect: South East
Elevation: 11800

 

Avalanches: R1, D1, storm slab. Natural slide – Not human triggered. Watched it go.
Weather:
Snowpack: Around 10 inches of new snow slide on a shallow snow pack

 

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Thor Himself,

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/24/2021
Name: Emilio Alcala

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Reno Divide
Aspect: East, West
Elevation: 11,200

Avalanches: Collapsing and Whumpfing, everywhere, loud as Thor. No visible avalanches.
Weather: Overcast with occasional sun pockets, light west wind, moderate snowfall.
Snowpack: Wind stripped @ ridge.
West aspect-
30-60cm below ridge. Firm sun crust and wind board.
East aspect-
60-105cm below ridge. Firm windslab on top of sun crust supportive to snow machine.
Sheltered on ridge-
105cm, 10cm storm snow (see photo)

 

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Cement Creek Snow

CB Avalanche Center2020-21 Observations

Date of Observation: 01/24/2021
Name: Cosmo Langsfeld

 

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Location: Cement Creek Ranch
Aspect:
Elevation: 9250’

 

Avalanches:
Weather: Storm total as of Sunday morning is 2”. That includes 1.5” reported yesterday morning.
Snowpack: