Avalanche: Portage / Placer

Location: Explorer Glacier

Date:

April 26, 2022 3:04pm

Observer:

Zak Hammill

Route & General Observations

Toured up Explorer glacier after seeing the crown from the road. We proceeded with necessary caution. Once past this avalanche we toured up and over Explorer peak to middle glacier. There were other slab avalanches on pretty much all aspects and south facing slopes started to shed at 2:30 PM.

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Forecaster Comments

The large propagating avalanche did occur over the weekend at the tail end of the storm ending Saturday.

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Natural	Remote Trigger	Unknown
Avalanche Type	Unknown	Aspect	Northwest
Elevation	2000ft	Slope Angle	unknown
Crown Depth	unknown	Width	unknown
Vertical Run	unknown

Avalanche Details

We saw the avalanche crown from the road, and guessed it to be a natural from Saturday's precipitation. Avalanche propagated across the entire slope, and we guessed it to have a two foot crown. Debris pile was large and ran for a ways.

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Obvious signs of instability

Recent Avalanches?	Yes
Collapsing (Whumphing)?	No
Cracking (Shooting cracks)?	No

Observer Comments

Rapid warming.

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

Calm winds
Warm air temps

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