Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Jason Konigsberg · Mar 1, 2020 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

No wind loading observed around Mt Victoria and the area we traveled. Warm with a mix of sun and clouds.

Snowpack

Northeast facing upper-end of below treeline (11,200 ft), HS of 205 cm. NSF layer 100 cm down was one-finger hard and not well-defined and no propagation in an ECT. East-southeast facing near treeline (11,500 ft), HS = 175 cm. MF crust 20 cm down with no results on this layer. Facets under a crust at 100 cm down. No propagation in an ECT. The crust was pencil hard and the facets below were one-finger.---Surface conditions- crusts on southerly at all elevations, crust on east BTL otherwise NSF and DF on northerly to east NTL. There was also areas of a 3 inch thick hard wind slab at the surface on easterly near treeline.

Avalanche

One avalanche noted west of Uneva Lake. It looks like it would have happened around Monday.