Observation: Public

Name:

Primomo/Carrasco

Observation Date:

March 11, 2023

Submitted:

March 11, 2023

Zone or Region:

East Central

Activity:

Skiing/Snowboarding

Location:

West Path Cannon Mountain

Did you observe any avalanches?

Yes

Avalanche Type:

Hard Slab

Size:

Size 3: Could bury and destroy a car, damage a truck, destroy a wood frame house, or break a few trees

Elevation:

7200

Aspect:

NW

Comments:

We found a pair of D3's had run recently on the W Face of Cannon. One of these was likely on night of 3/9, the other may have been yesterday (3/10) or last night with the stronger westerly winds.
Quite a few broken and bent over trees to 14" diameter. The larger and most recent slide ran over the bench with debris making it down to 4,400ft.
Avy entry here: https://nwac.us/public-obs/20230311_west-path-cannon-mountain/

Photo:

None reported

We found deep new snow with ski pen knee deep, and a thin crust on everything but direct N aspects. Found some wind stiffened pockets in open exposed areas BTL, but minimal reactivity.
Went up planning to ski some trees and pillows in the area. We stumbled into the debris tongue of a very large recent natural and decided to follow it up a bit for a closer look.