AVALANCHES: None

WEATHER: Light graupel and gusty west winds tapered midmorning, with broken skies clearing to scattered. Minor snow transport in the morning.

SNOWPACK: Less than 1 cm of graupel fell this morning on widespread melt freeze crusts from the last 2 days of warm and sunny. These crusts exist on E, SE, S, SW, and W aspects at all elevations, of varying thickness. On a WSW slope at 11,500 feet, a couple handpits showed the new melt freeze crust about 2” thick and pencil hardness on average, supportive on skis, and up to 4” thick and supportive to boot pen where the slope tilted more SW. Everything in the hand pit was refrozen, no freewater.

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AVALANCHES: set off one slide that slid on old rain crust for 15 feet and then stepped down to the ground. ran approximately 200+ yards (from top to bottom of california bowl on snodgrass. crown was approximately 2 1/2 feet. bed surface was basel facets. no one was caught. propagated roughly 15-25 feet R1 D1+

WEATHER: partly cloudy around 32 degree F

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AVALANCHES: Several recent loose wet avalanches on east and west aspects from the last 48 hours. A couple failed on these same aspects today. All of these avalanches where small, D1-1.5’s with a few D2’s in areas with lots of vertical relief.

WEATHER: Clear Sky over the Ruby Range and Elk Mountains. Clouds moving in from the west at the end of the day. Hot temps and no wind.

SNOWPACK: Alpine northwest slopes were a mixture of facets to the ground, near surface facets over a supportive slab, wind buff, or shallow hard wind slabs. The snow surface was cold and dry on this aspect all the way down to 10,800ft. On south and southwest aspects in the alpine the snow surface was wet for about 5cm and moist down 10-20cm deep on average, in the afternoon.

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AVALANCHES: Skied knob off wolverine ridge with no signs of instability. Exited vía right shute, was fine up top. Cut out on road to ski a steeper pitch in the trees and encountered skier triggered sluffing to the ground. Not enough to burry someone but plenty to knock you off your feet. Ran approx 30-40ft.

WEATHER: Blue and calm, Hot!

SNOWPACK: varied with aspect and Sun exposure. Even glopy by 11:30 in some places

SNOWPACK: We did two snow surveys for State of Colorado Water Supply Forecasts. Sites were at the bottom of Red Lady Glades and near Slate River by the Lower Loop. Sites had common results.. Depth of snow ranged between 26 and 31 inches. Snow density ranged between 21 and 26%.

Development of surface hoar up to 2.5 cm.

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