Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Arran Shrosbree · Mar 26, 2018 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Warm, high 40's, little wind with low cloud cover.

Snowpack

At area of previous days avalanches snow was roughly 3ft deep with a ice crust sitting 6inch below a dense wet snow from previous snow fall the day before. Top layer slid as a solid wet layer onto on ice crust on primitive hand tests.

Avalanche

2x loose wet avalanches on WSW facing slopes, debris ran roughly 100-150m from crown with a width of 5-7m at the crown, naturally trigger around rock bands, in tree line... Sighted 1 loose wet slide on ESE aspect of Bald MTN approach, to far away to estimate sizes. Tree line... Would say avalanches occurred on the Saturday afternoon