Observations

Date of Observation: 10/26/2022
Name: billy barr

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Gothic townsite

Observed avalanche activity: No
Weather: Snow did not start until around 4 a.m. and was moderate from 5-6:30 but now light with 2½” new and water 0.18″. Cloud cover obscured with the low, and current, a mild 27F after yesterday’s 6F (a record low for that date but only back to 2000). Total snow this winter (i.e. the past couple days) is 8½” with water content of 0.86″. Snowpack currently at 6″. Wind is light at 2-4 mph from the SW.

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Date of Observation: 10/25/2022
Name: Alex R

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Monday afternoon toured up Washington Gulch. One vehicle ahead of us with chains made it to Paradise Divide, but we had a Subaru and parked below Elkton. The road above Elkton had plenty of coverage to ski on. Continued into the center of the South bowl of Baldy and descended along the same route. 14-16” in the upper portion of the South bowl, less in the lower basin. If you skied lightly, you didn’t hit many rocks. The snow in the upper bowl felt supportive, with a consolidated but thin snowpack due to wind and some solar effect on Monday afternoon. Wind loading on the south west ridge about 10,000’.
Drove up again on Tuesday and the road had melted quite a bit below Elkton, but still held about 10” of snow about Elkton. Depending on how much snow we receive in this mid week storm, the road may become difficult for vehicle travel.

Observed avalanche activity: No

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Date of Observation: 10/24/2022
Name: Zach Kinler

Zone: Northwest Mountains
Route Description: Purple Ridge

Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches: None observed
Weather: Felt like winter, Partly to Mostly Cloudy, moderate northerly winds with stronger gusts on ridge-top, temps in the 20s
Snowpack: 12-15″ of snow from the recent storm above 11K.  Small drifts up to 2 feet just below ridge-top. Some cross-drifting was observed on the easterly faces of the Ruby Range. On a North aspect at 12K, older snow from early October was a Pencil hard crust. Northerly winds were moving new snow off of these aspects fairly effectively. No signs of instability in any terrain traveled.

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Date of Observation: 10/21/2022
Name: Zach Guy

Zone: Northwest Mountains and Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Satellite imagery of entire zone

Observed avalanche activity: No
Snowpack: See photos of 10/18/22 Sentinal satellite imagery of snow coverage lingering on a few high northerly slopes.

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Date of Observation: 10/21/2022
Name: Mark Robbins

Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Crystal Pass

Observed avalanche activity: No
Snowpack: See photos of lingering coverage on northerly aspects of Italian, Lambertson, Crystal, and Hunter Hill

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