Details

• Date: 2011/03/23

• Observer: Brian Lazar
• Organization: Forecast Staff, Colorado Avalanche Information Center

Location

• BC Zone: Front Range
• Area Description: Berthoud Pass area. West side of Pass..old ski area.

Weather

• Ridgeline Wind Speed: 5-10 mph
• Ridgeline Wind Direction: W
• Wind Loading: Previous
• Temperature: -6 C
• Sky Cover: Broken
• Depth of Total Snow: 200 cm
• Weather Description: broken low level clouds. Temps warm but below freezing.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: See profile. Recent storm snow warming and settling rapidly. Sitting on top of 4cm thick and pronounced MFC, which had dust on the top of it. Deeper buried persistent weak layers still exist in top meter of snowpack, but nonreactive in testing today. Snowpack cold on N'erthly aspects still, but showing signs of transitioning to spring. Recent storm snow bonding reasonably well to old surface considerng it's a crust, but still able to get small slab to release...see avy obs.

Snowpack Obsvervation #1 Persistent Weak Layer: Yes Comments: see profile

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2011/03/23	Berthoud Pass	1	TL	NE	SS	AS	R1	D1
Date: 2011/03/23 Observer: Brian Lazar Organization: Forecast Staff, Colorado Avalanche Information Center Area Description: Nitro area..West side of PAss in old ski area Landmark: Berthoud Pass Average Slope Angle: 40 ° Elevation: 11500 ft Sliding Surface: I - New/Old Interface Average Crown: 12 in Maximum Crown: 20 in Average Width: 30 ft Average Vertical: 100 ft Comments: recent storm snow

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