Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Jason Konigsberg · Apr 19, 2016 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Broken skies for most of the day with plenty of sun making it's way through the clouds. Afternoon convection fired up after noon with squalls of S1 but no measurable accumulations.

Snowpack

Steep north-facing terrain showed no signs of instability. The previous storm snow is bonded well and there doesn't seem to be any weak interfaces. No cracking or collapsing and no recent slab avalanches. Previous very small Loose Dry avalanches on north and small Wet Loose avalanches on south aspects. Greenhousing today led to most snow surfaces becoming moist except for upper-elevation north slopes. I observed some minor rollerballing out of near treeline north facing terrain at around 3 PM.

Avalanche

No significant avalanche activity observed but visibility was not great. Numerous very small Loose Dry avalanches of northerlies and Loose Wet avalanches on southerlies.