Observation: Hatcher Pass

Location: President's ridge

Date:

February 28, 2017 6:33pm

Observer:

Andy Dennis

Route & General Observations

skinned up established skin track

Red Flags

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Obvious signs of instability

Observer Comments

wind slabs forming rapidly

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

ENE wind ramping up. Skin track blown in. New wind slabs being formed. Cornices being eroded

Snow surface

settled powder to sun crust to wind slab

Snowpack

no formal observations. hand shears reveal poorly bonded shallow wind slab

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