Date of Observation: 12/04/2022
Name: Jason Sumner
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Red Lady Glades dad’ski. Standard skin track to goal posts. Standard ski down and out to road.
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Viewed from skin track along ridge a decent sized crown and debris field on east side of bowl around 11,800 feet. Pulled out above rock band and ran into upper bowl on looker’s left.
Weather: Thin cloud layer. Intermittent gusty wind once out of forest and onto ridge.
Snowpack: Saw several cracks on way up and had one pronounced collapse during traverse from ridge to goalposts at around 12,000 feet on S/SW facing aspect. Coverage highly variable and quite thin in places due to wind transport but skiing was mostly decent all the way down to road.
