Welcome the spring and the first real big avy cycle of the spring. Ski conditions in the back country are shit. Not enough melt freeze yet to glue things together. Every thing seems to be on a hair trigger right now. No expectations of over night freezes either. Things started moving shortly after 9:00 this morning in the Bow zone. Not even going to bother wading through the isothermal snow again tommorrow. Going to check out the resort for some spring skiing over the next few days until things start freezing up over night again.
Above. Photo 3 is a very very very large settlement that occurred in a meadow. The fracture propogated and collapsed the cornice. There's a reason why we weren't exposing ourselves to overhead hazard today, and kept our skin tracks no more than the low 20 degree range. Photo 1 and 2 is a very tiny slab that we cut loose while skiing. You can see that it's very small and isolated to a convex roll, the little fucker did manage to actually break up and slide about a foot.
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