Aspen

Avalanche

Polly Layton, Andrea Tupy · Mar 1, 2021 · Aspen

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Weather

Cool, calm, sunny day.

Snowpack

East aspect @10,000ft had a slight wind skin near the ridge top with a ski penetration of 7cm and boot penetration of 16cm. 88cm of almost all 1-finger to pencil snow sits on 47cm of 2 to 6mm facets. No results in our profile in the hangfire of a slide from February 1. This area cracked deep and wide but did not slide. South west aspects have 8 inches HST on the 3cm February 27 crust. Steep southerly aspects had moist sticky powder by 2pm and will have a crust tomorrow, but the air temperature stayed below freezing.

Avalanche

One avalanche from the estimated from the wind event on Thursday February 23. Alpine feature on a North aspect at 11,600ft.