Avalanches: Evidence of avalanches, but generally snowed and drifted in. Avalanche cycle was widespread, and if wind loading continues could see another round of avalanches. We quite worried about remote triggering potential all day, and didnt travel in terrain much steeper than 28º all day.
Weather: Clear skies, cold temps (12ºF), strong radiation and SE-E-NE-N winds in the progession as the day went on.
Snowpack: Thunderous collapses constantly all day, some violent and rattling twigs of snow. 8-10″ settlement cones, active light the moderate snow transport from the E-NE. Shooting cracks ~50ft, but rumbling collapses went much further. 2, ECT tests produced propagating results from 17 and 22 taps, sudden collapse

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Avalanches: Nothing new that hasn’t been reported, except a skier triggered slide on the hill above the Nordic Center. See photo
Weather: Clear to few skies. Cold temps, Light to moderate NE winds with light transport off of high peaks.
Snowpack: Rumbling collapses when I would jump on the snowpack after getting away from the skin track.

Intentionally (?) skier triggered slab avalanche above Nordic Center.  SS-ASc-R2-D1.5-O

Avalanches: See photo. Remotely triggered this slope while skiing on flat road. Downhill side of the Snodgrass road near “panorama point”.
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Avalanches: The only piece of avalanche terrain that we came across had slid naturally. NE aspect below treeline that ran before last night’s snowfall. 2-3 feet deep, on basal facet layer. SS-N-R2-D2-O. Partial clearing in the p.m. revealed what looked like several new slides near Red Ridge/ White Rock area, coming off of SW or S aspects above treeline. Debris piles were ~D2 in size, crowns obscured by clouds.
Weather: Light snowfall, with a couple of inches of accumulation by mid day. Winds began increasing around noon, with moderate gusts and blowing snow below treeline. Overcast skies began clearing to broken later in the day.
Snowpack: ~6″ of new snow overnight. Persistent slab was noticeably denser from settlement compared to my tour 12/23 on Anthracite Mesa, more supportive on skis, 5-10″ settlement cones. Collapses were fewer in frequency, but louder and longer running. SCARY. Often it would take jumping on the snowpack to initiate collapses, whereas 2 days ago they were going while simply ski touring. Structure was consistent across all terrain, about 30″ of slab, increasing in hardness with depth, over hollow facets.

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Weather: 5:30 a.m: Snow started back up at sunset after a cold (high of 11F) Thursday. Steady all night with 7½” by 5:30 and water of 0.47″. Snowpack had dropped from 53 to 42″ but now back up to 47″. No wind yesterday and last night. billy

7:00 a.m.: Currently obscured with no wind and steady, moderate snow. Morning low was 6F and currently 11F. For the past 24 hours (including the ½” late yesterday() snow totals are 9″ new with 0.59″ water and snowpack at 47½”. –OK. I get it. It is winter now. You can let up for a while, thank you. billy
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Avalanches: Overall, cold day, control/catch/prep day. 4 routes, multiple control teams, lots of explosives, only one persistent slab below Flaming (SS-AE-R2-D2-O). Cold temps may have locked snow down. Clear morning revealed total carnage in backcountry. Nearly all large or steep slopes at all aspects and elevations ran. Slide paths I haven’t seen run in the 4 seasons I’ve been here at least! Big Woody slid naturally, to ground.
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Avalanches:
Weather: Mostly Clear to increasing clouds; cold; no wind
Snowpack: Recent storm snow, plus a few inches of cold low density snow on top overnight. HS around 70-110cms. Mostly all storm snow over either a thin MF crust capping facets in the bottom 5-10cms, or just storm snow lying over sagebrush. Still observing deep collapses and some shooting cracks, but less so then yesterday.

Avalanches: Short tour up to Gunsight Bridge to view avalanche activity. Looks like most of Climax chutes ran mid storm. D2 to D2.5 debris piles, but crowns filled in. Two of the debris piles hit or came close to the summer lower loop trail. More crowns on Schuykill Ridge (E, NE aspects N/BTL), Augusta (S/SE aspect ATL), Mineral Point (E aspect ATL), and Purple (E Aspect ATL). Too far away to give much detail on the slides, but at least D2 in size.
Weather: Clear skies filled in by noon. Cold. No precip.  Blowing snow off of Scarp Ridge from SW winds, otherwise no transport.
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Avalanches: 10x D2’s or bigger:
Red Lady Bowl (D3)
Peeler Basin (D3), Peeler Peak south aspect
Red Lady Glades (D2)
East Bowl (Anthracites)
Augusta
Richmond…
Weather: White cheek kind of cold. Light blowing snow out of the West / South West.
Snowpack: Noisy! Booming, collapses breaking trail up Red Lady. 20-25cm settlement cones indicating rapid settlement. “Upside down” feeling with most of the settlement occurring near the snow surface.

Avalanches: “Lots of activity in the Washington Gulch area as well. Above and below Long Lake, road cuts, Baldy. Also wide propagation on Axtell (4th Bowl, Pencil) Red Lady, Climax Chutes”

“Hard telling in the light, but I’m on Emmons and looks like bowl went wall to wall on upper pitch. Storm slab only. Mid to late storm I think. Winds filling back in”

Slope in sun in foreground slid, as did East Beckwith in background

Off kebler pass road