Aspen

Avalanche

Brandon Levy · May 16, 2024 · Aspen

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Weather

The wind remained light through the day and shifted from southeast to northwest around 0930. Few clouds to start the morning increased to scattered by the mid-afternoon. The temperature was warm around 45F and the mid-May sunshine felt intense.

Avalanche

One older slab avalache on the south-facing slopes of Peak 13001 above Lost Man Lake looks to have been triggered by a loose avalanche. The activity under the large cornices on Geissler was fairly insignificant and small loose wet avalanches. The east and northeast-facing cornices loom large. Mitigation results from earlier in the week were mainly confined to cornice and large chunks of cornice entraining snow in the paths.