Allen Creek
Quick reportjohnwilliamcrowley · Feb 23, 2025 · Premier
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp
Sled access ski touring today. Found extremely reactive storm snow 15cm on top of facets and surface hoar in places. Skied sunny mellow S slope then moved and skied a N asp area. Observed multiple natural storm slab avalanches in sheltered N aspects on suspected surface hoar, also triggered multiple sz 0.5-1 releases skiing steep trees in N asp.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 120
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- S
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1850
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Foot Penetration
- 55
- Test Failure Depth
- 15
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets
25 degree S asp slope in sun CTE 5 RP, down 15, CTM 15 down 35, ECTN
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 47
- Slab Width
- 200
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Wind Exposure
- noWindExposure
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Slab Thickness
- 20
- Start Zone Aspect
- N, NE
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2000
- Weak Layer Burial Date
- 2025-02-22
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2025-02-23T22:00:00.000Z
Multiple natural avalanches observed, 2 shown in pictures at location tagged on map, estimated size given for larger slide shown