Details

• Date: 2013/03/20

• Observer: Crested Butte Avalanche Center

Location

• BC Zone: Gunnison
• Area Description: Snodgrass
• Route Description: Skied 2nd and 3rd Bowls---Steep NE aspects BTL

Weather

• Weather Description: Warm, calm, cloudy. Air T* of 3.5C at 1330

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: SNOWPACK: 15cm settled storm snow found. Surface was cold and dry snow on Northerly aspects and a thin MF crust on any solar aspects. Faintest hint of red dust is showing through from last wind event :-( . Storm snow mostly resting on a supportive MFcr, and found only unsupportive full-depth facets below in the darkest of timber on >35* slopes. Slow, surface snow sluffing on MFcr on slopes 35* or greater. One loose snow slide in steep E/NE terrain w/o prior traffic became quite large, running est. 250-300' and was 50' wide. Debris pile was shallow though and would classify as D1. Drop in at top was mostly full-depth facets capped with 15cm of recent storm snow still 4F hard. Skiing was on a supportive crust once in open. Wind textured snow surface, but NO wind affected snow.

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2013/03/20  †	Snodgrass Mountain	1	<TL	NE	L	AS	R1	D1
Date: 2013/03/20 (Estimated) Observer: Crested Butte Avalanche Center Landmark: Snodgrass Mountain Sliding Surface: I - New/Old Interface Weak Layer Grain Type: Crust Average Width: 50 ft Average Vertical: 25 ft Maximum Vertical: 300 ft