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Observation Details

Signs of Unstable Snow

Observations

Went out to do some skiing by Kendall Ridge. Given the avalanche forecast we assumed we’d be mostly relegated to the trees, but throughout the trip up hand pits/stepping on convexities we didn’t see any red flags so we continued further up towards the ridge through a narrow band of trees between gulleys (~5k ft). Given the forecast we decided to do a quick pit/ECT before heading up higher. The ECT quickly (1st elbow tap) showed propagation on a planar surface ~1ft down. Given this we decided to call the trip and turn around. We skied out the bottom of one of these gulleys with untouched pow (~30 degrees steep) and luckily had no issues/signs of avalanches.

Other notes: small amount of surface hoar throughout the zone in open areas and the sun today was more than forecasted.