Details

• Date: 2022/02/23

• Observer: Public Public
• Organization: CBAC

Location

• BC Zone: Gunnison
• Area Description: Mount Axtell ridgeline and west facing glades to 12,000 ft.

Weather

• Weather Description: Moderate snowfall this morning changed to light snowfall and light winds midday. A pulse came through around 3 p.m. that brought an hour of heavy snowfall rates and notable blowing snow off of the trees.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: Widespread collapsing. We even got regular localized collapses in tight trees, which was a noticeable difference from yesterday. It seems that the slopes that were heavily blasted by northerly winds prior to the storm are bonding better than everywhere else. I’m hypothesizing that based on crown line locations and the little bit of feedback I was able to get underfoot in the wind-crusted terrain.

Avalanches

• Avalanche Description: A handful of naturals that ran last night and this morning on Axtell, some D2s in 2nd Bowl and what looks like a D3 where the Pencil ran wall to wall and propagated into the lower part of Wang Chung. We remotely triggered at least one D2.5 in 2nd Bowl, and came across another very fresh slide that we either remotely triggered from very far away or it ran naturally minutes before we got there. There were also a bunch of natural slides above Coal Creek and one above Kebler Pass road, D1 to D1.5 in size. Details in the avalanche tabs.

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2022/02/23  †		1	TL	NE	SS	N	R3	D3
Date: 2022/02/23 (Estimated) Observer: Public Public Organization: CBAC Area Description: Pencil ran wall to wall and it looks like it propagated into Wang Chung lower down, or else Wang Chung was a separate slide.
	2022/02/23  †		1	TL	N	SS	N	R2	D2
Date: 2022/02/23 (Estimated) Observer: Public Public Organization: CBAC Area Description: Several shots in 2nd bowl ran. Looked like individual events. Ran last night or yesterday, had about 4-6? on bedsurface.
	2022/02/23  †		1	TL	E	SS	AS / r	R2	D2.5
Date: 2022/02/23 (Estimated) Observer: Public Public Organization: CBAC Area Description: 2nd bowl. Remote triggered from 10 feet away.
	2022/02/23  †		1	TL	N	SS	AS / r	R2	D2
Date: 2022/02/23 (Estimated) Observer: Public Public Organization: CBAC Area Description: I think this was remote triggered from a long ways away (200 feet or more), although it may have run naturally. 2nd Bowl.
	2022/02/23  †		1	<TL	E	SS	N	R2	D1.5
Date: 2022/02/23 (Estimated) Observer: Public Public Organization: CBAC Area Description: Gravel Pit. Ran sometime after we passed by the terrain this morning.

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