Date of Observation: 12/02/2022
Name: Billy Barr
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Gothic Townsite
Weather: Cloudy overnight with snow starting before 3 a.m. light to moderate but very dense with 3″ new and water 0.31″ with the snowpack at 16″. Gusting wind at times. Currently obscured with light snow. High temperatures the past 24 hours was 36F, low 24 and the current 25. A wet, heavy snow to start out.
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Date of Observation: 12/01/2022
Name: Dan Hohl
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Second Bowl uptrack, Coney’s.
Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches:
Weather:
Snowpack: Collapse and shooting cracks observed on East facing slope Below Tree Line. Hasty pit showed a snow depth of 55cm with a failure interface 40cm below the surface, consisting of a crust/facet layer 2-3cm thick on top of depth hoar 2-3mm in size. The slab on top of this interface was 4F hardness.
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Date of Observation: 12/01/2022
Name: Billy Barr
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: viewed from Gothic townsite
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: two small avalanches on northeast slopes of snodgrass than ran late Wednesday or overnight.
Weather:
Snowpack:
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Date of Observation: 12/01/2022
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: small hills near Snodgrass trailhead
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: some real small avalanches from the storm
Weather: sunny skies, snow blowing off summits
Snowpack: snow depth about 2 feet on shaded terrain. sporadic surface hoar moderate size. a few small collapses. many slopes were covered in cracks but didn’t avalanche.
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Date of Observation: 12/01/2022
Name: Zach Kinler
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Slate River TH to bottom of Purple Palace
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Continued documentation of the widespread avalanche cycle on East through North aspects.
Weather:
Snowpack:
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Date of Observation: 11/30/2022
Name: Rob Strickland
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Standard Red Lady and Standard Glady
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: saw many on the suspect Northern half of the compass (many reported already) plus the obvious cornice ridge collapse on an easterly ridge on skinner (also reported earlier).
A note I would add is that the lowest elevation snow was warming and wet this afternoon. even felt some crust forming in the shade… watching the snow from the trees drip onto the snow below. Crazy to think we started the day so cold and then to see melting on the snow the same day.
The snowpack was LOUD and collapses everywhere. Shooting cracks on most start zones (naturals) which I couldn’t get to move.
Obvious snow consolidation is evident around trees and bushes.
Very thin and somewhat supportive overall. I like what KH said, tips up, bums down!
Weather: sunny warming to 30*s (a guess)
Snowpack: Loud and shallow. ATL scoured and drifted. BTL getting deeper 500+ feet above Kebler (but still razor-thin in most places).
Are you sure we got 10″ – 17″ haha
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Date of Observation: 11/30/2022
Name: Zach Kinler
Zone: Southeast Mountains/ Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Slate River TH to the bottom of Purple Palace
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Documented a widespread cycle of avalanches from the recent storm on East through North aspects at all elevations. There were many small avalanches below treeline and numerous large D2-2.5 avalanches near and above treeline. The majority of these slides appear to have failed on 11/29 with the earlier ones filling back in a bit making them harder to identify.
Weather: Cold, had the handlebar warmers on high.
Snowpack:
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Date of Observation: 11/30/2022
Name: Eric Murrow
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Slate River corridor to Purple Ridge skin track.
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Widespread natural avalanche cycle. Below treeline northerlies (weakest snowpack) ran during the storm with many small naturals. Near and above treeline slopes held out longer and produced large, dangerous avalanches. See photos. We remotely triggered one avalanche from 250 feet away that wrapped around some small terrain features producing a large (D2) avalanche on a NE slope.
Weather: Clear skies, cool temperatures, and light winds.
Snowpack: We traveled on mostly easterly aspects (NE-E-SE) slopes. Collapsing was rampant on north and east aspects. Some collapses ran a few hundred feet breaking in well-developed facets. The slab ranged from 10 to 15 inches thick in sheltered terrain. The depth, here in the snowbelt Northwest Mountains forecast area, was up to 90cm (3 feet) in sheltered areas. Signs of instability were obvious and the conditions behaved like a Persistent Slab problem with remote triggering a real concern.
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Date of Observation: 11/30/2022
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Red Lady Glades
Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches: Was a good size cornice break just above tree line.
Weather: Frigid and calm
Snowpack: Frequent cracking and whomping in upper meadows on the way up.
Tips up buns down skiing .. pretty thin snowpack up there
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Date of Observation: 11/30/2022
Name: Ben Pritchett
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Photos taken from near CB.
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: See photos and details of natural activity from yesterday
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