Grand Mesa
AvalancheAnonymous · Jan 19, 2017 · Grand Mesa
Weather
Light winds from SW. Day started hawaiian and sunny, and ended with overcast.
Snowpack
Avg HS @ 9500ft 130cm. On W and NW facing, pole probing showed a mostly upright structure, with progressive hardness. On S and SE facing, the snowpack is much more layered, with multiple MF crusts, FC, and DH. Snow surface was all NSF and SH. Some very impressive SH formed over the last few nights. The SH survived today on most aspects other than SE, as it became cloudy prior to the heat of the day. Some sluffing on ~34deg slopes, but no other signs of instability.
Avalanche
Two small avalanches, R1D1, noted. They were NE aspects in the West Body Dump region. Looked to have been triggered from cornice fall, maybe during the warm spell? Looked like small wind slabs in a very wind affected area.