Front Range
AvalancheBrian Roman · Feb 25, 2020 · Front Range
Weather
Monday: snow came in with more wind ridge line guest over 90mph 2in of snow during day with intense transport. Tuesday: wind 25mph guest 35 over night laying down through the day wind chills -30 to -40 above tree line in area.
Snowpack
Zero creek head wall did slide once earlier this year late January. Since then over 7 ft of snow has fallen in zone with over 15 days of strong wind transport.
Avalanche
the hole north side of the bowl went crown is 900-1000 feet long vertical of 500 ft with slide length of 1000+ ft tough to see how far into trees it went. The cornice was really building in area with crown ling steeping back above cornice in a few places. lots of car + size blocks in debris.