Front Range

Avalanche

Kristopher Elyea · Dec 9, 2018 · Front Range

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Weather

Partly cloudy with a couple inches of new snow during the day

Snowpack

Wind loaded east facing

Avalanche

A group of three skiers skinned up an east facing slope which was wind loaded. They made it to the top without problems until the first skier dropped. He set off a slide and luckily was not caught as me and my crew of three watched. The other two members proceeded to ride the same face because they did not have radios. It was a fairly small slide.Thankfully no one was hurt and we continued to have a great day of riding.