Observation: Turnagain

Location: Sunburst

Date:
Observer:
Route & General Observations

Sunburst up ridge to weather station summit.

Red Flags
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Obvious signs of instability
Recent Avalanches?No
Collapsing (Whumphing)?Yes
Cracking (Shooting cracks)?No
Observer Comments

Large whumph at 2:30pm at about 1,400 ft. just one minute after we said now is definitely the time to be off of avalanche terrain.

Weather & Snow Characteristics
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Weather

Sunny sunny. Calm wind. Temps in the mid 40's but felt hot in the sun.

Snow surface

Solid supportable crust at 8am that was quickly broken down on solar aspects but stayed supportable in the shade.

Snowpack

Solar aspects after 2pm were unsupportable.
Didn't see any new avalanches however it's really hard to see what would be new with all the numerous previous avalanche debris and we left the parking lot by 3:30pm.