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Viewed a crown across nearly the entire west face of Raggedtop while touring on Magpie. Experienced two small collapses while skinning a lower ridge on Magpie. Hand pit revealed buried facets about 45cm deep on north aspects.  [ Read More ]
It only takes a matter of hours for the bed surface of a new glide avalanche to melt down to the dirt if it’s facing the sun. There is typically a small amount of snow left on the bed surface from these types of avalanches, giving the bed surface a ‘lighter’ look. If sitting in  [ Read More ]
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Mar 27, 2019
Recent avalanche looks like from 3/26 afternoon crossing Crow Creek rd approximately 1000ft from where the plowed rd stops.  [ Read More ]
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Mar 22, 2019
Natural avalanche on Orca, west facing. Released overnight on 3/21. Large wet slab that took the entire starting zone and ran full path.  [ Read More ]
Toured up to a high point of 4,600′. Many wet loose avalanche in the past couple days on steep south faces.  [ Read More ]