Details

• Date: 2017/12/27

• Observer: Ron Simenhois
• Organization: Forecaster, Colorado Avalanche Information Center

Location

• HW Zone: Loveland Pass
• Area Description: Loveland Pass.
• Route Description: Headed from to pass on the ridge to the top of the Little Prof and the Widow Maker. Returned on the same way.

Weather

• Ridgeline Wind Speed: 20-30 mph
• Ridgeline Wind Direction: SW
• Wind Loading: Moderate
• Temperature: -11 C
• Sky Cover: Broken
• Depth of New Snow: 0.5 cm
• Depth of Total Snow: 115 cm
• Weather Description: Windy day after a heavy snowfall period

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: On E aspects - 2 reactive weak layers. One layer of preserved F hard PP about 30 cm blow the surface. The second layer is a 4F hard FC layer about 90 cm from the top. Several avalanches about 30 cm deep on east aspect suggest that this PP layer has wide distribution across the area. See snowpit for more details.

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2017/12/27  †		1	>TL	SE	SS	N	R2	D1
Date: 2017/12/27 (Estimated) Observer: Ron Simenhois Organization: Forecaster, Colorado Avalanche Information Center Area Description: Black Widow
	2017/12/27  †	Pass Lake	1	>TL	E	SS	N	R2	D2
Date: 2017/12/27 (Estimated) Observer: Ron Simenhois Organization: Forecaster, Colorado Avalanche Information Center
	2017/12/27  †	Pass Lake	1	>TL	E	SS	N	R2	D1
Date: 2017/12/27 (Estimated) Observer: Ron Simenhois Organization: Forecaster, Colorado Avalanche Information Center
	2017/12/27  †		1	>TL	E	SS	N	R3	D1
Date: 2017/12/27 (Estimated) Observer: Ron Simenhois Organization: Forecaster, Colorado Avalanche Information Center
	2017/12/27  †		1	>TL	S	SS	N	R3	D1
Date: 2017/12/27 (Estimated) Observer: Ron Simenhois Organization: Forecaster, Colorado Avalanche Information Center Area Description: South side of the west ridge from the pass

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