Observation: Girdwood

Location: Raggedtop Mountain Shoulder

Date:

April 10, 2021 2:51pm

Observer:

Alex Palombo

Route & General Observations

Today we skinned up ragged mountain’s E shoulder, we found wind effect above treeline which varied from 1/4″ to 3″ slabs. We had several collapses and got one large collapse with shooting cracks that shot about 50 ft uphill of us at about 1500ft just as we got above treeline.

Red Flags

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Obvious signs of instability

Recent Avalanches?	No
Collapsing (Whumphing)?	Yes
Cracking (Shooting cracks)?	Yes

Observer Comments

Shooting Cracks, whumphing

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Snow surface

Wind slabs

Snowpack

we dug a pit right above the shooting crack, and we got no propagation in an ECT which I found interesting. We then dug 2 more pits right above the shooting crack and got the same results, no propagation.

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crack extends to drawn red x

Location

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