Aspen

Avalanche

Nathan Baier · Dec 1, 2019 · Aspen

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Weather

Sunny with rapid warming

Snowpack

We traveled on all aspect except west today. We have rumbling collapses on low angle shaded north facing terrain (~9700 ft) as well as whomping on south facing aspects (10,200 ft)

Avalanche

Large avalanche with 2’+ crown on a steep north facing slope above raspberry creek. Slide went across the entire slope and ran about 500’ or more down to the bench. The snow has enough energy to crack the remaining snow on the ridge top. There was another release on an ENE aspect in the same drainage as 2’ deep. Both of these slides occurred after the snow stopped. A slide mid storm occurred on Raspberry Peak on ENE through N aspects extending down the ridge.