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Submit an Observation All Regions|Turnagain|Girdwood|Portage/Placer|Summit|Seward|Chugach State Park|Hatcher Pass|Other Regions| Photos | Date | Location | Observer | Avalanche? | General Observations |
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| 1327672800January 27, 2012 2:00pm | Turnagain - Pete's South | Quick Test Pit dug on Petes's south approximately at 3100 feet on the SW aspect of the ridge. Slope angle of 31 degrees with a total snow depth at 175cm. (Pit was in a shallow portion of snowpack near … | |||
| 1327665957January 27, 2012 12:05pm | Turnagain - Magnum | Took the dogs swimming at Magnum today! Did a few runs south to west facing. Clear skies and mostly light winds with a small amount of snow being transported by stronger gusts. Deep powder. Wind a … | |||
 | 1327622400January 27, 2012 12:00 | Turnagain - Between Tincan common and propper | While skinning up Tincan Common, we watched some talented skiers drop in-between Tincan common and proper. Sluff was significant on steep roll overs but did not run very far due to slope angle and var … | ||
| 1327590000January 26, 2012 3:00pm | Turnagain - Sunburst W and S face | Winds 10 to 20 on ridge, stronger near first false summit (common). Snow has settled a lot since Tuesday and is gaining density at new snow/old snow interface. Quick observation noticed some rounding … | |||
| 1327536000January 26, 2012 12:00 | Girdwood - Max's Mountain | Toured up Max's Mountain and found buried surface hoar below 2000' on the SW side of the mountain. It sits roughly 35-45cm deep. We did have a few collapses in this layer while skinning around 1400-16 … | |||
 | 1327491000January 25, 2012 11:30 | Other Regions - Whittier | AK DOT plow driver was clearing wind drifts on Tuesday evening in Whittier around 9pm when he encountered a dense pile of snow that was difficult to plow through. Upon further investigation during … | ||
 | 1327449600January 25, 2012 12:00 | Turnagain - Pete's North | From what we saw today, which is similar to what others have seen recently, the new snow is showing good signs of bonding well with the old snow surface. We cut down 3 sofa size cornices onto mid-uppe … | ||
| 1327411496January 24, 2012 1:24pm | Turnagain - Sunburst W and S face | Between 30 and 40 inches of new snow. The quantity of new snow appears to be compressing the buried surface hoar, we did however get one incidence of collapsing in a location near a ridge top ( about … | |||
 | 1327410000January 24, 2012 1:00pm | Turnagain - Tincan ridge | Loose snow on top of loose snow on top of more loose snow. It's deep out there. The top layer of snow was more than a meter of soft 4 finger to fist snow. Boot penetration was 110cm. The 3 day st … | ||
 | 1327331280January 23, 2012 3:08pm | Summit - near manitoba | Very very deep cold $moke out there! Honest waist deep or better and im 6'1"! Safe slope angles to ski meant few turns just point it! No collapsing or settling observed. Upper alpine appeared to have … | ||
| 1327327200January 23, 2012 2:00pm | Turnagain - Lower Pyramid Pk | Trenched our way up through the woods today on lower Pyramid Peak. Ski penetration was past the knees at times making for slow going. Temps were in the 20's with calm winds and no falling snow. Sn … | |||
| 1327323600January 23, 2012 1:00pm | Turnagain - Eddies | Did another day of snow pack assessment / student lead tours at Eddies with AAS Level 2. Another 20+ cm of new snow had fallen since 01/22/12 1500, ended up breaking the trail again. Unreactive snow p … | |||
| 1327276800January 23, 2012 12:00 | Turnagain - tincan trees | Toured up tincan around noonish. Knee deep off the skintrack. Two feet or more everywhere. Crazy deep--too much snow for the mellow pitches and too deep to feel confident getting on anything big … | |||
 | 1327255200January 22, 2012 6:00pm | Turnagain - Eddies | Observed wide spread cracking within the storm snow layer at Eddies with L2. | ||
 | 1327248000January 22, 2012 4:00pm | Turnagain - Gods Country- lower Pyramid | Between noon and 2pm it was snowing at least 2-3 inches per hr. During this time as we went up to do our 2nd run, we observed widespread crack propagation both sideways and uphill. This coincided wit … | ||
| 1327244400January 22, 2012 3:00pm | Turnagain - Placer Valley | Motorized Observer Training with the Forecasters Drove to Turnagain Pass in the morning to find heavy snowfall (approx. 2"/hr.) and very poor visibility. Temps approx +9F at the car. Drove back do … | |||
 | 1327240800January 22, 2012 2:00pm | Turnagain - Placer Valley and Turnagain Pass | Here are a few pictures of RED FLAGS seen yesterday. Widespread cracking and collapsing mainly in the new storm snow just above the old snow surface. However, there are weaknesses at the new/old snow … | ||
| 1327240800January 22, 2012 2:00pm | Turnagain - Lower Lipps | We were able to ski cut soft slabs on the most wind affected aspects (generally south facing). This was on the old/new snow interface. Minor propagation, but enough obvious wind effect that we staye … | |||
| 1327226400January 22, 2012 10:00 | Turnagain - Tincan | Skied and early run on Tincan today, maybe 8 inches of new snow at the bottom with a bit more up around treeline. Winds were light down low and moderate at treeline and seemed to be increasing thro … | |||
 | 1327156200January 21, 2012 2:30pm | Turnagain - Corn Biscuit | Ahead of the new snow forecast for Sunday (1/22), we have been mapping out the general surface conditions to help predict how well any new snow will bond, as well as existing snow that is available fo … | ||
| 1327064400January 20, 2012 1:00pm | Girdwood - Big League | One natural HS-D1 observed in an unusual location on apron beneath Big League. We assumed it was related to compaction from sluffing off the steep face above until we triggered one of our own while … | |||
 | 1327059000January 20, 2012 11:30 | Girdwood - Big League Area | A group of us toured up Max's headed for the Big League area today. We experience wind effected snow in a number of places in the Big League Basin. On our way up into the upper basin I caused a sma … | ||
 | 1326891600January 18, 2012 1:00pm | Turnagain - Lipps | Went up to Lipps and and skied the south side of the ridge. Snow was consistently sugary top to bottom, with a little surface hoar low down. Saw a single human-triggered sluff slide on the south asp … | ||
 | 1326726480January 16, 2012 3:08pm | Summit - near manitoba | Found some >1" surface hoar on a protected northeasten aspect near manitoba 1/16 no other remarkable conditions other than the blower cold $moke! | ||
| 1326722400January 16, 2012 2:00pm | Turnagain - Up Spokane Creek | Skied a couple south-southwest facing runs up Spokane Creek, finishing the day just below the headwall. Similar conditions to the past couple days, although the sluffing seems to continue to mellow o … |
