Details

• Date: 2022/12/08

• Observer: Jeremy Yanko
• Organization: Forecaster, CAIC

CAIC Comments

Location

• BC Zone: Northern San Juan
• Area Description: Cemetery

Weather

• Ridgeline Wind Speed: 5-10 mph
• Ridgeline Wind Direction: W
• Temperature: 24 F
• Sky Cover: Clear
• Depth of New Snow: 10 in
• Depth of Total Snow: 24 in
• Weather Description: Fairly calm and comfortable under the sun.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: New snow over the last 24 hours at this location was a nice unconsolidated 12-14" below treeline on a westerly aspect. Some wind loaded pockets were found against rocky knob features but would only crack with ski pressure and yield no audible collapsing on the weak faceted crust near the bottom of the snow pack. Natural stress cracks were evident throughout the majority of the slope, perhaps indicating a steeper slope angle and a more cohesive slab would have failed and released. The storm snow appeared to be bonding well with old layer/s, but the main suspect lies down near the bottom 1/3 of the pack where a weak faceted crust is perched over 25cm of 3/4mm moist facets below.

Avalanches

• Avalanche Description: Natural activity observed on predominantly North facing terrain at all elevations. all slides appeared to have failed mid pack on possibly the 11/27 layer. One avalanche in the lower Columbine lake zone appeared to have failed at the ground ATL on North.

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2022/12/08  †	Red Mountain Pass--Eastside	1	>TL	N	SS	N	R2	D2
Date: 2022/12/08 (Estimated) Observer: Jeremy Yanko Organization: Forecaster, CAIC Landmark: Red Mountain Pass--Eastside
	2022/12/08  †	Red Mountain Pass--Eastside	1	<TL	N	SS	N	R2	D1
Date: 2022/12/08 (Estimated) Observer: Jeremy Yanko Organization: Forecaster, CAIC Landmark: Red Mountain Pass--Eastside
	2022/12/08  †	Red Mountain Pass--Eastside	1	TL		SS	N	R2	D1
Date: 2022/12/08 (Estimated) Observer: Jeremy Yanko Organization: Forecaster, CAIC Landmark: Red Mountain Pass--Eastside
	2022/12/08  †	Red Mountain Pass--Eastside	1	<TL		SS	N	R1	D1.5
Date: 2022/12/08 (Estimated) Observer: Jeremy Yanko Organization: Forecaster, CAIC Landmark: Red Mountain Pass--Eastside

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