Details

• Date: 2015/12/23

• Observer: Nathan Rowland

Location

• BC Zone: Aspen
• Area Description: Five Fingers & South Highlands Bowl

Avalanches

• Avalanche Description: R3 D3.5 - East facing in start zone. Started just below ridge and ran to the bench just short of Conundrum Creek. Wind Slab seems the likely culprit. Crown is roughly 250m wide and ran ~1.25 miles over 3,300 feet. Pointer and Middle Finger ran entirely. Portions of Thumb and Ring ran with the other two but not to full width. There is no evidence of slides in Pinky. Slid sometime overnight 12/22 or early morning 12/23. There is also a slide in South Highlands Bowl from the saddle between Highland Peak and Point 12,499 but I can not see how far it ran.

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2015/12/23  †	Conundrum Creek	1	>TL	E	SS	N	R2	D2.5
Date: 2015/12/23 (Estimated) Observer: Nathan Rowland Area Description: Highlands Ridge btwn 5 Fingers and Highland Pk. Landmark: Conundrum Creek Elevation: 12150 ft Maximum Width: 500 ft Comments: 2 crowns along ridge, w narrow section of hangfire between them. Could have been 2 distinct slides.
	2015/12/23  †	Conundrum Creek	1	>TL	E	SS	N	R3	D3
Date: 2015/12/23 (Estimated) Observer: Nathan Rowland Area Description: 4 of 5 Fingers (all but Pinky). Landmark: Conundrum Creek Elevation: 12200 ft Sliding Surface: O - Within Old Snow Maximum Crown: 50 in Maximum Width: 2500 ft Maximum Vertical: 3300 ft Comments: More-or-less continuous crown or series of crowns extending across most of 5 Fingers. Observed morning of 12/23. Dimensions estimated from images and topo.

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