Grand Mesa

Avalanche

Colin Mitchell · Apr 14, 2016 · Grand Mesa

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Weather

Overcast with very light snow above 10,000', light rain below.

Snowpack

The Cliffs are still holding a fair bit of snow but many rocks are starting to poke through. The snowpack has gone isothermal here. The top several cms was wet melt forms. Foot pen was ~70 and water had penetrated at least that far, with moist melt forms found to that depth. Island Lake is below threshold.

Avalanche

Many old D1 loose slides on N facing aspects. Appeared to have run last week at the beginning of the warm-up.