Route and General Observations:  The UAS ODS Av 2 class traveled by lift to the Eagles Nest, Eagle Crest Ski Area, then hiked to Pittman's Ridge, accessing the S aspect, digging pits at 2850' with avg. slope angle of 28deg, then descending via Heavenly to the ski area.   Red Flags:  The group observed isolated R1D.5 Wet […]

I went up to 54 mile and dug a pit at a very similar location as a pit I had dug on Feb 2, to compare results.   4800' West aspect on a broad ridge, nearly flat.  Found Buried Surface Hoar 35 cm's down.  Probably deeper down once you got off of the ridge.  Showing […]

Route: Skinned up Michaels Creek to top of the headwall. Bootpacked on SW aspect to 6800'. Skid down NW aspect.  Observations: Plenty of old avalanches in Michael's Creek, non appeared to be recent as the debris was covered in drifted snow with no recent wind.  Snow up headwall was 4" to 6" powder over a […]

2/24/19: Skinned up Trims Creek (inspired by last week’s group!), followed ridge west of Item Peak headwall to about 6500ft, skied mostly W/SW aspects from ridge back down to Trims drainage. Very sunny day, some wind in the creek but calm further in.   Very variable snow conditions overall. Snow surface has been shaped by […]

Chilkat Pass Zone: X-Post from Avalanche Canada MIN https://www.avalanche.ca/map?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/8677773c-84d3-4031-b049-9bf9edcc9fd9

Lutak Zone: Great riding conditions in and out of the trees in Lutak area. Skies clear, winds were light N winds, air temps below freezing and on solar aspects, the sun was having a strong effect. No blowing snow observed, although there was evidence of some light-moderate wind transport along ridgelines and on windward slopes. At […]

Went to Heiden Glacier and found a variety of stripped snow and 10-30 cm's of pencil hard wind slab on the approach.  No reaction, shooting cracks or collapsing on test slopes.  Skied a NE facing ramp and found that the snow had mostly been stripped down to old snow by wind.  The snow that was stripped […]

Clear, light north wind, -5C Moonlight Basin Wind raked. Pencil hard windslab 10-30cm thick adhered to variable surfaces. No fresh activity observed.

Small natural wind slab avalanches..at 2800' RFS.

Lutak Zone: 12" of new snow, winds above treeline were moderate gusting strong from the N-NE, visible wind loading on S-SW aspects, building a touchy wind slab and cornices. Travel was good on windward slopes where there was rime and sastrugi to avoid the fresh wind slab. Temperatures stayed in the 5-10F range with strong sunshine […]

Sled/riding adventure up to East summit(wx station) of Old Faithful.  Pit @ 4500'/ NE/ECTP 22 down 60cm(LOC) on facets above crust.  Cross loaded wind slabs board cut 10-15cm on features in riders right of main bowl. Multiple sled slope cuts on convex rolls on East aspect around treeline with no results. 

Lutak Zone Northern aspect had 4-6" of new snow and above 1500' Monday's snow became denser where the wind had affected the snow (wind slab). Every slope above 1500' was whumphing, failing under the new snow/wind slab on a 1/2" soft crust with 4-6" of faceted crud below that down to a hard supportive crust. This […]