Details

• Date: 2013/02/18

• Observer: Rob Coppolillo

Location

• BC Zone: Front Range
• Area Description: Old resort & aqueduct
• Route Description: Summit parking to weather station, down Meadows into Current, up to 110s, down to road.

Weather

• Weather Description: Light snow throughout day, with moderate winds predominately out of the NW. Continued light-moderate blosno.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: Suncrusted snow surface on SE-S below TL aspects, with older crust 15-30 cm deep. Scoured in the alpine, gullies are cross-loaded in isolated features heading down into Current. NE-E-SE aspects are loaded from blosno over last few days. Teacup Bowl has big wind pillows on the rollovers. "Plunge" and "Lift Gully" and other runs off the ridge were loaded up.

Snowpack Obsvervation Cracking: Minor Collapsing: Minor

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2013/02/18  †	Berthoud Pass west side	1	TL	NE	SS	AS / u		D2
Date: 2013/02/18 (Estimated) Observer: Rob Coppolillo Area Description: Between "Lift Gully" and "Plunge" in old area Landmark: Berthoud Pass west side Elevation: 11700 ft Comments: Skier track leading directly into crown. Left summit area at 9a.m., returned at 11:30 and slide had occurred. Assume no one buried; didn't see rescue or SAR personnel.
	2013/02/18	Berthoud Pass west side	1	<TL	NE	SS		R4	D2
Date: 2013/02/18 Observer: Rob Coppolillo Area Description: "Top Secret" run in the old area Landmark: Berthoud Pass west side Elevation: 11400 ft Comments: Occurred in the last 24 hours; toured yesterday and it hadn't slid. Debris noticed this morn at 10:30 a.m.

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