Sawatch

Avalanche

Steve Banks · Apr 4, 2021

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Weather

Sunny with scattered clouds. Very light Westerly breeze. Hot.

Snowpack

Wet. Dug on an East facing slope at 11,000 at 11:00. The upper 15 cms was wet and the rest of the snowpack was moist. Loosing strength rapidly. CTM and ECTP13 failing on wet facets above a crust 30’s down. The deep persistent slab is present, but did not fail in tests. In this location with HS of 170 the basel facets are quite moist and headed the right way.

Avalanche

None observed.