| Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Observation: Girdwood
Location: Maxes SW Face
Standard route to the top of the trees topping out at 2550′ where the terrain becomes steeper. Descended the shoulder and down through the trees without incident.
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
A handful of recent avalanches observed around the valley.
Weather
Clear, calm winds, super cold.
Snow surface
Low desity fluff, new stellars mixed with some surface crystals, light wind texture near the ridge above the trees.
Snowpack
Hand pits found no slab characteristics in the top 20 cm, only red flag observed on the way up was the recent natural avalanches around the valley. Dug a pit on the SW facing 30° slope the top of the trees at 2550', finding 60cm of progressively stiffer F, to 4F to 1F snow sitting on the the 10 cm band of fist-hardness snow with some stiffer 1F snow and then the knife hardness halloween crust below. Two compression tests found CT 20, sudden collapse, on a smooth planar bed surface 70 cm below the surface.
Hand hardness profile