Driving east along Turnagain Arm from Indian I noticed two well defined chutes that had soil-colored debris mixed in with snow that were recent. I was in a hurry so did not glass the source. The chutes that blocked the railroad (last season?) did NOT appear to have any recent debris and were snowfall covered.  [ Read More ]

Toured up to 2800′ on the east aspect of Raggedtop. Dug snowpits at 2500′ and 1500′ and found buried weak layers about a foot deep in both locations. Surprisingly, we did not get any interesting results in our snowpits on these weak layers, but with more snow on the way they are very likely to  [ Read More ]

Signs of wind in the alpine, largely unaffected snow in the trees.  [ Read More ]

A group of 3 skiers started from Crow Creek Trailhead at 11:00 am, cold and clear at the start of the tour. We ascended up through the meadows using the skin track already in place and gained the ridge to ski an east facing line. The clouds started coming in while we were climbing and  [ Read More ]

flat tracking up the road to Crow pass trailhead  [ Read More ]