Two photos of a natural avalanche that sent a powder blast over a house in the Crow Creek neighborhood Monday night. Nobody was injured in the avalanche. The character of this avalanche is similar to that of multiple other avalanches that failed in the Girdwood area during the 2/18 cycle. We suspect these avalanches involve  [ Read More ]

Toured up to 2,000′, just past the dense trees on the ridge and rode the open meadows on the south side of the ridge. Started up around 11:30 and returned at about 5:00. Heavy snow and quite windy when we were up above the dense trees on the ridge – enough wind to stop there  [ Read More ]

Sunny day in the crow creek area. Highpoint of 3200′. We witnessed at multiple wet loose slides entrain a lot of snow on steep solar aspects, initiating mostly from rollerballs off of rocks. They were certainly large enough bury a person, and a few covered old skin tracks. We actively witnessed at least four of  [ Read More ]

A few photos of avalanches from the past 24 hours viewed from Girdwood. Some are from the Girdwood flats area along the highway, others are up California Creek.  [ Read More ]

Raggedtop to 2800′. We had concerning hand pit results near 2500′ and very weary about crossing open steep slopes.  [ Read More ]