Front Range
AvalancheAlex Haeger · Dec 26, 2021 · Front Range
Weather
Whiteout snow
Snowpack
Unsure if this ripped to ground or to the buried faceted layer about a foot off the ground. I dug a pit here last week and saw this layering.
Avalanche
Slab avalanche broke to faceted weak layer 1’ above ground or to the faceted ground layer. It’s hard to tell with the whiteout conditions. This was trigger by a skier’s dog, who was carried over the cliffs, buried (mostly, except nose luckily), and recovered by the team of searchers in the debris field. The debris ran to the trees below.