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Apr 8, 2024
Obs: Surface hoar on upper glacier (2500 ft.) upwards to include west ridge and summit. 5-10mm deep. Snow surface a little faceted, skied great. Snow was deep: HS>3m on glacier, about 2m on ridge, sinking in mid thigh when booting. Windslab avalanche visible across glacier on W aspect. Dug two pits at foot of glacier  [ Read More ]
We rode out to Spencer Glacier to check out surface conditions in the Placer Valley. The river is opening up and there were limited easy crossing opportunities. I watched one wet loose avalanche occur at about 500’ on a steep southwest facing slope. On my drive back to the south there was new wet loose  [ Read More ]
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Mar 21, 2024
We saw an impressive avalanche in the Byron cirque. I’ll let the photo do the talking but we figured the cornice fell and triggered this in the last couple days. We estimated the crown at its thickest to be 15-20 ft. We also saw 2 wide propagating avalanches on the north face with crown depths  [ Read More ]
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Mar 20, 2024
Witnessed a large natural wet loose avalanche in Placer Valley around 3pm, March 20.  [ Read More ]
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Mar 14, 2024
Afternoon brapp sesh to Skookum, ascended to high point of 2700 ft.  [ Read More ]