Avalanche: Turnagain

Location: Sharks Fin

Date:

February 28, 2019 4:00pm

Observer:

Heather Johnson

Route & General Observations

Attempted most direct route from Eddie’s parking lot, toured up west ridge of sharks. Started tour slightly after 12 noon. Both creeks were frozen and easily crossed.

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Natural	Remote Trigger	0
Avalanche Type	Wet Loose Snow	Aspect	South
Elevation	unknown	Slope Angle	unknown
Crown Depth	unknown	Width	unknown
Vertical Run	unknown

Avalanche Details

Numerous wet loose avalanches on south face of wolverine in steep areas and rocks. Looked recent.

Red Flags

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Obvious signs of instability

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

Observer Comments

Roller balls on south face wolverine as well as some smaller on south aspect of sharks. Older debris in several areas at the bottom of sharks south aspect-maybe from the last wind/storm.

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

Blue bird, no wind, 30 at the car, 40+ on the ridge

Snow surface

Impressive hoar frost in some clearings through the trees. Surface on ridge ranged from dry powder to thin crust to rock hard sastrugi to wet and glopping on top of our skis.

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