Front Range
AvalancheAnonymous · Mar 17, 2021 · Front Range
Weather
S-1 to S1 throughout the day. Skies OVC to CLR throughout the day. Temps sub-freezing throughout the day. Winds light from the southwest.
Snowpack
HN24 15-25cm. BTL and NTL pockets of surface slabs forming in isolated areas.
Avalanche
HS-ASu-R2-D2-G Second Creek Ridge 11200' N---Two partners and I skied from Berthoud Pass into Current Creek and then into Second Creek. Our first lap into Second Creek we skied the Corner Pocket trees and then put our skin track back up to the ridge just east of the Corner Pocket trees. We then descended into somewhat steep, somewhat open and somewhat treelined chutes skiing the lower steep slope in pitches one at a time. I entered the chute and managed a bit of sluff on my tails by skiing out of the fall line. As I skied out of the fall line, I noticed a small surface slab propagate at my ski tips. Then the hard slab propagated above me taking me off my stance, stripping my skis from my feet and carrying me down the slide path in the tumult of the snow. The debris slowed down, came to a stop, and I was partially buried but uninjured.