Inviting Instability

CB Avalanche CenterCBAC Observations

Date of Observation: 12/21/2021
Name: Cam Smith

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: The southeasternmost NW mountains

Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches:
Weather:
Snowpack: S, SW, and W slopes BTL and NTL near Splains Gulch- open areas and sparsely treed areas had sun crusts rang from Ibuprofren crust to CBD crust on the “Than Acuff knee pain scale”
Densely treed areas have held up nicely on the surface from last weeks wind and this weeks sun

N slope BTL near Ohio Pass- in open areas there was surface hoar so big and tall that every step of skinning through it sounded like shattering glass

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