Details

• Date: 2013/03/03

• Observer: Josh Hirshberg

Location

• BC Zone: Gunnison
• Area Description: Snodgrass NE-SE 9,400-11,100ft

Weather

• Weather Description: Broken clouds, becoming overcast. Cloud level dropping into the valley @ 13:00. Light snow S-1 in the afternoon w/ little accumulation. Mostly calm in the valley. Warm temps but staying below freezing.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: Average HS 100cm w/ some areas as low as 50cm. Surface crusts exists on all SE slopes and some sunny E slopes. Overall the snowpack on the E-NE slopes on Snodgrass has become much weaker and faceted in the past month. Conditions are punchier, and definition between layers is disappearing b/c of faceting. Below 10,000ft significant crossloading has occurred from NW valley winds. Isolated areas of hard, supportive windslab. Put a umber of ski cuts in steep convexities, with minimal sluffing.

Snowpack Obsvervation Cracking: Minor Collapsing: None

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2013/03/02  †	Gothic	1	>TL	SE	WL	N	R1	D1.5
Date: 2013/03/02 (Estimated) Observer: Josh Hirshberg Area Description: White Mtn Landmark: Gothic Sliding Surface: O - Within Old Snow Average Crown: 25 cm
	2013/03/01  †	Snodgrass Mountain	1	<TL	E	SS	AS	R2	D1.5
Date: 2013/03/01 (Estimated) Observer: Josh Hirshberg Area Description: Lowest slopes of 2nd bowl. crossloaded gulley into a terrain trap. Landmark: Snodgrass Mountain Elevation: 9600 ft Sliding Surface: O - Within Old Snow Average Crown: 25 cm Average Vertical: 100 ft