Details

• Date: 2012/01/26

• Observer: Joshua Hirshberg
• Organization: Crested Butte Avalanche Center

Location

• Operation: CB Avalanche Center
• Area Description: Mount Emmons
• Route Description: Skinned up standard Red Lady track to summit. Descended towards Coon Summit and entered into Red Lady bowl on a SE aspect. Skied a recent bed surface down the bowl and out the standard Red Lady run to the parking lot.

Weather

• Weather Description: Mild temps, but still sub-freezing at most elevations. Skies were mostly clear w/ strong solar radiation. Winds picked up during the day reaching strong gusts @ ridge-top. Winds aloft started NW becoming NNE. Moderate blowing snow, but it varied w/ specific peak/range. Seemed to depend on available fetch and ridge configuration.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: Many ridge tops had fresh cornices. Snow surface varied from surface hoar, NSF, rime crust, to decomposing stellars.

Snowpack Obsvervation Cracking: Shooting Collapsing: Rumbling

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2012/01/25	Red Lady Bowl	6	>TL	SE	SS	N / c	R1	D2
Date: 2012/01/25 Observer: Joshua Hirshberg Organization: Crested Butte Avalanche Center Area Description: occurred early AM on the 25th due to recent wind loading and cornices. Average Slope Angle: 33 ° Maximum Slope Angle: 35 ° Elevation: 12000 ft Sliding Surface: I - New/Old Interface Average Crown: 25 cm Average Width: 10 m Average Vertical: 600 ft Comments: 4 x D1, 1x D1.5, 1 x D2