We toured up the Manitoba common up track to see what the snowpack stability looked like at higher elevations. There was around 2-3″ of new snow and around 6″ in wind loaded areas. There was a crust below the new snow from the parking lot to the top of Manitoba (3,600′). We dug a pit  [ Read More ]

Toured up to 2400 feet on a east facing slope of Colorado? (One mountain south of Fresno). There was a recent glide avalanche on the south face of Fresno and another glide was opening just next to it. No pit was dug.  [ Read More ]

Started from the Manitoba parking lot at 12:30pm. 35°, blue sky, sunny, slight cool breeze, felt downright tropical. Followed the skinner up to the ridge and then skiied down the northeast face. Just a little bit of glopping. No shooting cracks or whumphing noted. Ski penetration less than 1 inch. Snowpack was dense sun crust  [ Read More ]

Tenderfoot up to 3000′ on the ridgeline; down the ridge/northerly aspect  [ Read More ]

We toured up to treeline on Gilpatrick N. We noticed around 4-6″ new snow on top of a firm melt/freeze crust, with some wind-deposited snow up to a foot deep. There was a new crust on the surface up to around 2000′. We didn’t see any fresh avalanches, but visibility was very limited. Above 2000′  [ Read More ]