Trigger | Natural | Remote Trigger | No |
Avalanche Type | Unknown | Aspect | Southwest |
Elevation | unknown | Slope Angle | unknown |
Crown Depth | unknown | Width | unknown |
Vertical Run | unknown |
Started at the Cornbiscuit lot. Toured up Magnum and accessed changing snow conditions throughout the day. Went up to practice digging snow pits. Found good skiing on the way down on wet surface snow.
Trigger | Natural | Remote Trigger | No |
Avalanche Type | Unknown | Aspect | Southwest |
Elevation | unknown | Slope Angle | unknown |
Crown Depth | unknown | Width | unknown |
Vertical Run | unknown |
The glide avalanche was located below the larger glide crack on Eddies shoulder.
Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Glide avalanche observed on Eddies Shoulder.
When we arrived at the parking lot there were scattered clouds, temperatures were just above freezing with a calm northeast wind and no precipitation. By the afternoon, at our high point of 2500 ft the sky was overcast with light flurries, temperatures hovering right around freezing with calm winds coming from the east.
While ascending there was a melt freeze crust on the surface. After a morning of sun and warm temperatures the surface of the snow softened.
We dug two pits at 2500 feet on a NW aspect of magnum. We found a layer of 3mm buried surface hoar starting to round between 40 and 50 cm down. The surface hoar was under one finger slab. We had consistent test results with column tests showed instability on the buried surface hoar with a sudden planar (CT21 SP) and another Sudden planer that occurred in overdrive (over 30 taps). We had one ETC yielding a full propagation at 25 (ECTP 25) the other had no reactivity (ECTX).
Snowpit profile of pit located on the NW aspect of Magnum at 2600 ft on a 26 degree slope. Observed at 2:00pm on 3/23/2024
Snowpit dug on NW aspect of Magnum at 2600 ft on a 26 degree slope. Observed at 2:00pm on 3/23/2024
Buried rounding surface hoar grains found in snowpit
Wet loose avalanches on all aspects
Glide avalanche on the SW aspect of Eddies shoulder