Front Range
SnowpackSpencer Logan · Dec 22, 2010 · Front Range
Snowpack
Large natural slide in Trelease Bowl. From Dale Atkins:
"Last week's cycle was impressive but it did not come close to comparing with the Feb 1986 and Feb 1995 cycles. Interestingly, there is no record of this path running in '86 (probably the biggest cycle since the late 1880s, at least -- locally -- until the 1995 cycle hit). In this immediate area, the Feb 1995 cycle produced many more, and also bigger and thicker avalanches than Dec 2010. At least one in the 1995 cycle was much thicker. Trelease ran in Feb 1995 but was unremarkable. There were some big avalanche cycles in the 1950s, but back in those days, no one recorded slides on Trelease"
"Last week's cycle was impressive but it did not come close to comparing with the Feb 1986 and Feb 1995 cycles. Interestingly, there is no record of this path running in '86 (probably the biggest cycle since the late 1880s, at least -- locally -- until the 1995 cycle hit). In this immediate area, the Feb 1995 cycle produced many more, and also bigger and thicker avalanches than Dec 2010. At least one in the 1995 cycle was much thicker. Trelease ran in Feb 1995 but was unremarkable. There were some big avalanche cycles in the 1950s, but back in those days, no one recorded slides on Trelease"