Numerous wet, loose slides along the west facing ridge above Explorer Glacier  [ Read More ]

Multiple glide cracks that appear sometime between 1:00p and 7:00p on the NW face of Maynard Mountain between 1000′ and 1600′  [ Read More ]

Numerous avalanches from the west faces Bard Peak and Shakespeare Shoulder in the areas of slope angle greater than 35°  [ Read More ]

We toured up to treeline in Portage on Sunday, stopping to dig one pit on a north aspect at around 1400′. The snowpack was moist with a few saturated layers in the upper 5′. Rain picked up Sunday afternoon, and by Monday morning there was a large wet slab avalanche just below the Explorer glacier,  [ Read More ]

Touring around treeline in the Portage Valley today. Lots of blowing snow and active loading kept us modest with our terrain objectives for the day. We dug a pit on a north aspect around 1350′ and were surprised to still get some reactive test results on the 3/30 interface that hasn’t produced avalanches in nearly  [ Read More ]