LOCATION: Crested Butte Area
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 02/27/2015
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 02/27/2015
SUBJECT: Whetstone
ASPECT: North
ELEVATION: 10 500
ASPECT: North
ELEVATION: 10 500
AVALANCHES: 4 different slides visible from basin floor. All from recent wind loading
WEATHER: Snowy with mild winds in the tress, large gusts on ridgelines and peak visible from basin floor
SNOWPACK: Solid with no instability below treeline. Once into the tongue below M-Face…experience numerous collapses but nothing broke loose,. Turned around and skied trees
UPLOADS: