Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Colorado Adventure Guides · Dec 9, 2018 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Started tour at 1200, sunny trended toward Broken at 1430. Calm to no wind at TH trended toward Light winds from the NW. Clouds building over Ten Mile range as day progressed, noticed possible light snow and/or wind loading.

Snowpack

Noticed around 5-8cm new snow. Slight warming on southerly aspects as toured up the road. Also on South found crust at the old/new interface as well as a crust around 5cm from ground sitting on top of Fist hard facets at 10,600ft. Dug pit at 11,400ft NW, HS90cm found sudden results around 30cm down on Thanksgiving interface failing on buried NSF's. Second group's pit located on W aspect around 11,400 ft. HS77cm, also experienced sudden results around 30 cm down.

Avalanche

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