| Trigger | Natural | Remote Trigger | 0 |
| Avalanche Type | 0 | Aspect | South Southwest |
| Elevation | 2500ft | Slope Angle | 37deg |
| Crown Depth | 5ft | Width | 150ft |
| Vertical Run | 1000ft |
Avalanche: Turnagain
Location: Petes South
Jason DeHaan, Alex Else, and my self skinned up the alders on supportable crust, easy travel. Made it to top of the ridge to find high quality snow. Saw a large new glide crack on Pete’s North and a large old Avalanche crown on Pete’s South.
Avalanche Details
The avalanche looks like it happened during one of the many rain/heavy snow events last week. The crown is 3-6 feet deep and deepest when it contacts a big rock, 100-150 feet wide and created a large debris pile 800-1000 feet below. It is several days old but impressive nonetheless.
Observer Comments
No obvious sign of instability, only a fresh mega glide crack on the south face of Petes North.
Weather
Partly cloudy skies, light snow, calm winds 5-10 gusting to 15 occasionally, temps upper 20's to low 30's
Snow surface
Supportable melt freeze crust below 1500', breakable crust with 2-5' new snow up to 1800', crust totally gone by 1850' wind affected 4f powder, with pockets of lower density snow. Good skiing above 1800'
Snowpack
Dug a pit at 2200'. HS 250cm, dug to 130cm. Right side up snowpack with no significant stability test results.
Ct 15 Q3 30cm
CTN X2
Crown of Old Large Natural Avalanche 2500' Petes South
Old Large Natural Avalanche 2500' Petes
Large New Glide Crack on Petes North
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