Avalanches: R3-D3 avalanche sympathetically released 300′ above skier. Partner in safe zone felt a collapse as skier crossed gully from SE to NE aspect, likely at a shallow area around willows. Partners in safe zones were able to notify skier before he was caught. Take home point- don’t hoot and hollor when your friend is getting sweet face shots, it may be hard to distinguish from “AVALANCHE!”. It was super hard to see the crown as we didn’t see it from our safe zone and couldn’t see it until we looked back up from the Nordic trail at valley bottom. Best guess would be 18″ crown stepping down to the ground in some spots. I gave it the r3d3 because it ran 9/10ths of it’s path starting 300′ from the ridge and running ~2200′ entrenching an impressive amount of snow on the way and spilling over a cliff at the bottom. Probably about 200′ wide jagged crown, in the trees, quickly narrowing to the 25′ width of the chute it self. The first skier watching from the safe zone yelled to me, I looked up from my safe zone and saw the powder cloud and was able to yell to the man skiing. He pulled out to the right just in time…no big deal until we realized we weren’t in the exact shot we thought we were in and if he had taken the ride over the cliff face he wouldn’t have had much of a chance. I was thinking more d2 but it would have crushed a car for sure.  We made several decisions prior that kept us safest in the event of the worst BUT 1) I’m no longer gonna shoot with glee when face shots are had and save shouting for emergency situations only and 2) take way more photos before dropping into an area that’s new to me
Weather: Partly cloudy, no precip, temp in the 30’s, light winds out of the S/SW
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Avalanches: Numerous slabs littered across N-NE-N facing slopes in steep terrain. Some triggered by dry loose sluffing and pulling out slabs 1-2ft deep on steeper convex rollovers, some very widely propagating slabs off Axtell in 3rd bowl. Some Wet loose out of steep east facing slopes near and above treeline.
Weather: Location: Paradise Divide Area
Date of Observation: 03/27/2016
Name: Ian Havlick
Subject: Baxter Basin Avalanches

Scattered clouds, strong solar, light SW winds with moderate gusts at times. Strong Winds visible at ridgetop. New snow ranged between 10-30cm depending on aspect.
Snowpack: Moist 10cm of new snow above last March 24th crust on southerly facing slopes, on northerly slopes snow remained cold and about 30cm above March 24th crust. 60-80cm total on top of dirty, stout Feb 18th dust layer. No signs of instability under sled. Moderate wind transport on high ridgelines from SW. Cinnamon, Peeler, Schuykill Peak.

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Avalanches: 2nd hand report. Multiple skier triggered avalanches on east to northeasterly aspects. One skier caught but not completely buried in an estimated D2 avalanche that ran 1,000ft. Estimates put the crown at 18″ deep, 40ft wide before entraining more snow lower down slope and failing on the 24th melt-freeze crust.

Avalanches: Decent visibility and no fresh avalanches observed in this area.
Weather: S-1, overcast, calm to light winds with no transport at ridge top. Cool temps.
Snowpack: Below tree line, storm totals ranged from 3″-6″, low density, and no concerns except small sluffs. As we increased elevation towards East Maroon Pass, storm totals reached 10″-15″ near and above treeline — a little slabbier due to wind affects , but minimal previous wind loading. Some minor cracking observed on steep rollovers at these elevations. No other signs of instability.

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Weather: Wind let up and snow started up around 2 p.m. going to near midnight before stopping with even short periods of minor clearing, then cooling. Now calm with 8½” new snow and a dense 0.70″ water. Snowpack at 48½”. Cloudy and calm with no precipitation at the moment and none since midnight.
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