Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Chris Clay · Feb 6, 2021

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Weather

@1:30pm From I70  there was large plumes of snow blowing over the peaks. Visibility was moderately bad with blowing snow on the highway @ about 11,000".  Looking west down into the valley I could see snow filled rotors in the wind several hundred feet tall on the lower slopes of Buffalo reaching down to silverthorn.

Snowpack

No snow pack observations made

Avalanche

E aspect @ about 11,800" Southern most peak on the N to S ridge line one drainage to the west of Coon Hill.