Avalanche: Summit

Location: Summit Road Obs

Date:

March 28, 2019 5:30pm

Observer:

H. Thamm

Route & General Observations

Drove through Summit between 5pm and 5:30pm to look for any new avalanche activity. Observed a recent slab avalanches on a W aspect of Butch. The timing of when it released is unknown, but suspect within the last two days based on how fresh the crown appeared. There was another large crown on a West aspect in a valley behind Tri-Tip and Templeton. See photos. Several glide avalanches and large cracks were seen on a SW aspect of Wilson’s South.

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Natural	Remote Trigger	0
Avalanche Type	Unknown	Aspect	Unknown
Elevation	unknown	Slope Angle	unknown
Crown Depth	unknown	Width	unknown
Vertical Run	unknown

Red Flags

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Obvious signs of instability

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

Observer Comments

Recent slab avalanches
Recent glide avalanches

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

Sunny and clear
40F
calm
No precip

Photos & Video

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Recent slab avalanche on Butch, West aspect. The older crown lookers left is from last week during the storm.

Wide angle of the recent Butch avalanche, W aspect

Another large crown was seen in the valley behind Tri-Tip and Templeton

Recent glide avalanches and cracks on Wilson's South

South facing slope near Hope Wye with lots of old debris from storm slabs, wet loose and glides

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