Desperado

Very reactive today as soon as the slope approached 30 degrees. We were able to trigger many size 0.5-1.5 slides with a ski cut. All aspects were bad and terrain choices had to be VERY conservative. Snowfall was about 2cm/hour all day, but winds stayed light. In the afternoon we remote triggered a 1.5 with a very wide crown, but runout was very short. Although the snow was moving easily, slides didn't tend to propagate as a cohesive slab, but rather, moved from a point release off the ski cut and got larger as it moved down slope. Slabs will grow as snow solidifies with more storm loading in the coming days.

The storm snow failed on the CT with basically no pressure. There was another layer to note on a crust about 30-40cm down that was resistant but could wake up with the heavier storm loading.

Runout was short and the slide moved very slowly downslope. Crown was very wide but the slab thickness was relatively small.