Front Range

Avalanche

chase courington · Nov 19, 2017 · Front Range

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Weather

Sunny, few high clouds, windy ~20-30 w/ gust ~40 (?). It had snowed the day prior and been very cold and windy through the morning, around 10am the ski started clearing and the wind started calming down. Air temp warmed up slightly thought it was still very cold all day.

Snowpack

~10-13" "storm snow", high western winds so SE-NE faces were loaded up, probably closer to ~20-24" on those faces. Not much if anything below the wind slab and storm snow, some rotten snow from Oct.

Avalanche

Probably 400-500' feet wide Current Creek Bench appears to have slide naturally or remote triggered. Viewed after the event from the top of weather station. It appears to have ran about 300'. We also observed a smaller remote triggered slide on the shoulder of a small face.