Front Range

Avalanche

Sean Fearon · Feb 17, 2019 · Front Range

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Weather

Windy (duh), intermittent clouds, blowing snow

Snowpack

Decent amount of wind loading. We skinned up climbers right of the apron to avoid the exposure of the chute, we turned around when we get the snow under the wind slab turn to hard sun crust. This was the slide layer.

Avalanche

Dragons tail coulior slid naturally. My guess is R3-R4 D1.5 That top six inches of storm/wind slab slid on the sun crust layer.