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Observation Details
Name:
StevenObservation Date:
March 13, 2022Submitted:
March 13, 2022Zone or Region:
Snoqualmie PassActivity:
Skiing/SnowboardingLocation:
CommonwealthTriggered Avalanches
Did you trigger any avalanches?
YesWas it intentional?
YesAvalanche Type:
Wet LooseSize:
Size 1: Relatively harmless to peopleElevation:
5500'Aspect:
SComments:
Very small wet loose slides were easy to skier trigger in the new snow on SE-SW aspects from ~5700' down to ~5200'Observed Avalanches
Did you observe any avalanches?
YesAvalanche Type:
Wet LooseSize:
Size 2: Could bury, injure, or kill a personElevation:
Aspect:
SComments:
Old (D2ish size) debris filled Cocaine couloir down to the bench below the couloir. Didn't immediately see any crown lines, so guessing it was wet loose.Signs of Unstable Snow
Observations
Traveled from Commonwealth to Cocaine Couloir from ~0900 to ~1300.
In that area the new snow was heavy and wet and ranged from about 3cm at 3300’ to 12cm by the middle of the couloir back to 5cm near the top of the couloir. It looked like the top of Cocaine got very slightly wind scoured, and it looked like some of that snow wound up at the top of the North Couloir.
The snow fell on a very supportable crust, but doesn’t seem like it bonded to that surface very well - things like pole tests easily entrained all of the snow above the crust.
We also saw tree bombs entraining a bit of snow as they slid downhill as early as 10:00 on W facing aspects, and it was easy to produce very small wet loose slides on SW-S-SE aspects by about 12:00.
Cocaine was also filled with old debris. No crowns immediately visible from that slide.
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