Aspen
AvalancheDylan Craaybeek, Brandon Levy · Mar 31, 2025 · Aspen
Weather
On and off light snow, broken to overcast cloud coverage, on moderate southwest wind gusting strong and picking up throughout the morning.
Snowpack
The snowpack saw a good refreeze and was supportable to boots and skis on all slopes except east and southeast-facing slopes below 9,000 feet around 11:00. There was about 1 to 3 inches of new snow on top of the crust near and above treeline with some wind drifts up to a foot deep along the ridgeline. Pits on north-facing slopes above treeline revealed liquid water did not make it very deep into the snowpack but there was little to no sign of lingering persistent weak layers in the upper snowpack and the only deeper buried weak layers on the slope we dug to the ground (a slope that has not avalanched this season) was depth hoar near the ground far too deep for a backcountry traveler to impact on similar slopes. Most of my uncertainty lies in what the snowpack structure looks like on repeat paths and if water made it to the weak layers near the ground.
Avalanche
Observed some very small Loose Wet avalanches from last week's warm up and one larger debris pile, likely from a Loose Wet avalanche near Pyramid Peak but could only see the debris.