Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | Yes |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Toured up to where microdot starts to get steep from independence mine parking lot. Followed a skin track from another guy who was doing laps. One whumpf that was very loud on the skin up. Probably about eight inches of fresh snow plus what else fell since 1/15. We dug a pit at 3700 and got mixed results. Failure on the new snow that fell last weekend. Low visibility and wet snow falling.
Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | Yes |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Recent avalanches off steeper slopes of marmot and skyscraper. Some roller balls. One whumpf but didn’t see any shooting cracks.
27 degrees and poor visibility
Wet snow coming down
Slight breeze coming from NE
Medium heavy/wet snow. Seemed like 8 inches new since last weekend.
Dug a pit at about 3700.
CT15 Q2 about 15 cm down from the top
ECTN15 about 15 cm down from the top
Shovel shear did break below the 12/26 raincrust
Pit had minimal slope and was SE facing in general.