Sawatch

Avalanche

kevin Nikolaides · Apr 4, 2021 · Sawatch

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Weather

Very warm. Moderate wind up high (>12k ft) kept things somewhat cool in the morning.

Snowpack

Refrozen crust varying from 1-3” on top of still very wet snow from Missouri gulch TH up to treeline at sunrise. Still a crust up higher but on top of dry snow. Extremely wet snow on the ski down around 12pm. Lots of collapsing snow any time we veered off the packed down trail

Avalanche

Saw several avalanches on the east facing side of Missouri Gulch that occurred the day before (4/3). Heard from a hiker in the parking lot they saw another wet slide release as they were hiking down today around 12pm.