Details

• Date: 2020/02/01

• Observer: Alicia Zimmel
• Organization: Public

Location

• BC Zone: Vail & Summit County
• Area Description: Dog Leg off Black Peak on Loveland Pass. Latitude: 39.64186 Longitude: -105.85550

Weather

• Weather Description: Overcast, steady N/NW light winds with sustained moderate gusts. Visible snow transport lee to the N. Roughly 1" new overnight.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: Shallow. Newly deposited DFs and RGwp of 4F hardness over a weak base of F hardness facets increasing in size to the ground.

Avalanches

• Avalanche Description: Elevation: >TL roughly 12600ft, Aspect: SW Type: SS Trigger: AS/c Size: R1, D1 Dimensions: average 25cm deep at crown wall, 20 feet wide, ran about 800ft or the length of the path. Isolated pocket of wind slab on skier's right of Dog Leg where load was most prominent. Broke on the interface of new wind load over basal facets 1-2mm in size. Pocket released on a ski cut about a foot below triggering party's skis. Avalanche picked up low density snow in the guts of the path and gained mass. Avalanche ran to ground in some spots.

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2020/02/01  †	Loveland Pass-Southside	1	>TL	SW	SS	AS / c	R1	D1
Date: 2020/02/01 (Estimated) Observer: Alicia Zimmel Organization: Public Landmark: Loveland Pass-Southside

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