Observations

Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Lower Cement Creek

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Widespread soft slab cycle below treeline on W to N to E aspects, with a few wrapping into ESE. Mostly D1s except for longer running terrain produced D2s. Crowns are about 10″ to 12″ deep. A lot of activity on Cement Mountain as well, N and ATL up to D2. Photos show the most interesting slides, there were dozens more.
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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Just past Southeast Mountains boundary
Route Description: Upper Taylor as viewed from Tilton Pass

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: A few notable D1.5 to D2 avalanches, a couple of which failed on southerly aspects.

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Double Top

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Documenting avalanches from the cycle.

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Teo Ridge, Twin Lakes, and Cumblerland Basin as viewed from Double Top

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Documenting large avalanches from the cycle.

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: West Brush Creek and Gothic as viewed from Double Top.

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Documenting large avalanches from the cycle. A pair of D2 slides on an east aspect in Union Chutes look very fresh; they may have run today from solar warming.

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Ruby Range, Schuylkill as viewed from Double Top

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Adding a few more large avalanches that ran during the latter half of the storm

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Phil Ott

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Standard Anthracite Skin Track

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: No new unreported Avalanches.
Weather: Bluebird, 23F,
Snowpack: Observed no instabilities as we traveled up the skin track, stepping off often. Dug a pit on a 30 degree NNE slope at 10760, this area was on the leeward side of trees and likely was more loaded with a HS of 295cm. F from 295cm down to 240cm, 4F from 240cm to 200cm, F to bottom of pit. We noticed a dirt layer that can be seen in the pic. We got a result of ECTP23 at 200cm (95cm from surface) SP Q1, the block slid out an inch or two and was very clean.

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022
Name: Zach Kinler

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Town walk

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: D1.5 wet loose avalanche ran at 4:00 pm on a SW aspect below treeline on Mt. CB.  A dozen or so D1 wet loose slides also ran around Red Ridge area S to W aspects NTL, and a couple of D1s in the Terminator Chutes, SW to W aspects.

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Date of Observation: 02/27/2022

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Red lady skinner, observed from the top

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Widely propagating and long running slide in Redwell looks very recent. Pic from 1:23 pm

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Date of Observation: 02/26/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Viewed from Mt. CB

Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: A few more recent slides. See photos.

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