Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Scott Toepfer · Mar 9, 2021 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Mild, (mid-40’s) increasing clouds, light breeze....below TL.

Snowpack

Generally supportable on the days tour but got onto a SE aspect near treeline 20* slope and found some trap door/collapsible snow. Failing under a MF crust that is ~ 12” deep.

Avalanche

Some quite old Wet Loose activity. Southeast aspects of Mt Helen were surprisingly burned out on the whole. Bummer. Too early for that. Looks like SE Helen had seen a minor wet slide cycle a couple weeks ago or so. About a half dozen or so WLNR2’s