A few photos of the active north winds and a few wind slab avalanches, possibly releasing Wednesday Jan 8.  [ Read More ]

Glide avalanches observed from FS office and town  [ Read More ]

(Submitted from mobile) Max’s Mountain: 9:15am Standard approach with at most 2” of fresh, dry snow under tree canopy up until 1500’ where Ben and I branched into open meadows. Great visability with pockets of blue sky but broken, great depth of light and thick flakes, 2cm/hour falling. Approx 29°F – 10:00am Under 1cm/hour @  [ Read More ]

We set out for a tour in the Girdwood Valley to look for a similar set up (reactive facets over a crust) that observers have been finding in the Turnagain Pass region. In the locations we dug, we did not find this set-up. We found a rather boring, fairly homogenous snowpack.  [ Read More ]

Hike (on foot) up to the top of treeline to where there was enough snow to skin on the common uptrack for Max’s.  [ Read More ]