Front Range

Avalanche

Brian Blaser · Apr 17, 2016 · Front Range

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Weather

Snowing and potent 2+ inches per hour at some hours and light winds enabling storm slab production ... about 34 degrees with winds out of the nw at about 10-12mph

Snowpack

>2 feet of new snow at around timberline. Heavy spring snow.

Avalanche

No surface hoar observed yet unstable conditions exist as a result of week old sun crust layer. No pit was dug this week but last week there was no evidence of a deep persistent slab on a similar aspect, if lower elevation pit.