Aspen

Avalanche

Brian Lazar ยท Apr 25, 2025

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Weather

Started sunny and warm. Temperatures stayed warm, but there was a cool southwesterly breeze in the alpine with increasing cloud cover later in the morning.

Snowpack

There is still dry snow on north and northeast-facing terrain above about 12,300 ft. The surface freeze is a 2cm thick collapsible melt-freeze crust that overlies about 10cm of decomposed/fragmented snow mixed in with small facets. This weak layer combination sits atop a stouter, thicker crust that formed during the last heat wave, with dry, rounded snow below that. There are isolated patches of a dusting of dry surface snow above 13,000 ft.

Avalanche

There were several small Loose Wet avalanches in steep terrain from the few/several days before today on steep northerly-facing terrain. The bed surface of these small slides showed dust.