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Mar 14, 2024
Along our route up explorer glacier we noted widespread surface hoar on the snow surface from where we started our tour to where we stopped, approx 3000ft. Winds were light  [ Read More ]
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Mar 8, 2024
10-12 inches of dry surface snow from valley bottom to the top of the glacier. Underneath the new snow was a slick bed surface. Steep terrain on all aspects was  [ Read More ]
Up Skookum Valley to upper glacier, ~3200’. Several storm slabs seen on all aspects and elevations. All appeared to be running on 3/5 interface, nothing deeper. Wet loose on Solar  [ Read More ]
Avalanche chutes generally south aspect showed some recent activity. One in particular (I was driving fast) had gone across the railroad and apparently had been excavated by the railroad that  [ Read More ]
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Feb 25, 2024
Skookum Valley and onto the Glacier to a high point of 4500’. Found good pockets of sheltered snow at ~3500’.  [ Read More ]