Photos by Zach Guy
Snow cat triggered slides above the Nordic Center
Fresh windslabs that ran yesterday or last night on the SE face of Mt. Owen
Northwest Bowl in the Anthracites, ran wall to wall
Southeast face of Mt. Afley
East to Northeast face of Mt. Owen. Â I think the looker’s right half ran yesterday or last night, the looker’s left ran earlier in the storm. Â 
Only light to moderate wind Tuesday by mid day with light snow picking up at sunset last night. The 24 hour totals are 8″ new snow with 0.55″ water as snowpack reached 59½”, now at 59″. Cloudy currently with thankfully no wind and cooler at 10ºF. Flat light and little visibility so nothing new on slides to report but run-out zones show nothing new that i can tell. billy
We have another good slope failure above the Nordic Center. I pulled it out with a cat as I was plowing the ditch road.Â
GUIDE: JBÂ
AVALANCHES: We spotted large slides on all aspects, ranging from D2 to D3 in size. Mt. Gothic’s west face and Mt. Afley’s southeast face both produced impressively wide slides (R4). All of Northwest Bowl in the Anthracites ran (R4). The east face of Ruby and north face of Carbon produced large slides. The south side of Peeler Peak had a couple smaller crowns. All of these slides looked fresh in the past 24 hours. Older debris piles from days prior could be seen from slides originating off of Scarp Ridge’s NE slopes and off of Mt. Owen’s east face. Mt. Axtell’s First Bowl ran sometime today, clearing out a swath of small trees on its way to running full track across Coal Creek.
WEATHER: Brief clearing allowed views across the range.
Snow transport picked up in the afternoon under WNW winds and light snowfall. Cold temps. Broken to overcast skies.
SNOWPACK: 13″ overnight.
UPLOADS:
South face of Peeler Peak
East face of Ruby Peak
Fresh debris this evening with snapped trees below Axtell’s First Bowl
DATE:Â 3.3.15
Tuesday A.M.
Not a lot of new snow but terrible wind going strong most the night but letting up a bit after midnight though still at it. Gusts reached 50 mph during the night. Only 4″ new snow with 0.46″ water but substantial snow transport such that breaking trail this morning was easy as the snowpack has already set up. Water content of snow the past 3 days has gone from 6% to 9% to 11%. Visibility still flat but i have seen slide debris on lower portions of Snodgrass (though not as much as i had hoped). Wind continues but with gusts only in the 20 mph area now. Not a nice day, oh no, not at all. billy
Mid-day Tuesday
AVALANCHES: Many naturall avalanches visible on Snodgrass looking south from Gothic townsite, Once mountain became visible around 11am Tuesday, March 3, 2015 I could see many natural slides on Snodgrass in all the usual locations. At least 8 slides visible and these are all the parts of Snodgrass furthest from CB, and less skied by town folk. Couldn’t see the popular ski runs on Snodgrass but would assume similar scenario.
I’ve seen Snodgrass with more slides on it, after bigger dumps, which indicates to me that a lot of the un-slid areas are near the tipping point but not quite there for naturals to occur, this would give me pause were I to ski an area that didn’t slide (which I’m not gonna do).
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SNOWPACK:
UPLOADS:
AVALANCHES: N face Ohio, NW shoulder Ohio, numerous D2 slides in anthracites proper. One size 2 on north facing Scarp Ridge observed, as well as fresh windslab on Ruby/Dyke saddle around 1615. pics of axtell crowns
WEATHER: mild, light winds increasing in afternoon from SW. heavy snow started falling at 1700hrs. riming conditions.
SNOWPACK: moist heavy surface snow (6-8″) was reactive in isolated areas to explosives. Minor cracking throughout day.
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