Steamboat & Flat Tops

Avalanche

Michael Fitzgerald · Nov 16, 2022 · Steamboat & Flat Tops

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Weather

Mostly cloudy with some sun peaking through. Light flurries.

Snowpack

roughly 40cm deep snowpack. Crust from the freezing rain event on the 5th present roughly 5cm above ground. Well-formed 35cm snowpack above the ice layer. Some collapse in very limited exposed locations. East facing 35 degree undercut slope at 9,428ft off of the uptrack to Walton peak was tested for reactivity (pictured). Some loose dry release, but no slab-like activity.

Avalanche

None observed