Observations
Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Entire Year
Toggle Button to Show/Hide Public Observations
GOOGLE MAP ALBUM
 1 image | REGION: TurnagainObserver: Public ObserverDate: May 19th, 2013 Location: Magnum west face (with map) Observation: It looked as though there had been an obvious strong wind out of Taylor pass during storm, these were pretty phat pockets that went naturally on wind loaded convexities. Debris was enough for serious knee wrenching or shallow burial, there are plenty more untriggered ones out there, various aspects. View Complete |
 2 images | REGION: SummitObserver: Public ObserverDate: May 10th, 2013 Location: Lower Butcher Bench - Summit Lake Area (with map) Observation: Isothermic mush above 2500'on West aspects. Shin deep boot penetration. Below 2500' skied good before 11am on supportable sun crust. Warming rapidly in hazy sun. Many large wet slides from previous days. Most ran down to about 2000'with microwave to refrigerator sized debris. View Complete |
 1 image | REGION: TurnagainObserver: Public ObserverDate: May 8th, 2013 Location: Johnson Pass (with map) Observation: Tons of natural avys late in the day - on almost every aspect. (Estimate on location of picture via your zoom and drag tool) You might note that the trail head is in less than great condition. The river is flowing pretty good back there and will likely present problems to anyone less than expert on a sled. View Complete |
 1 image | REGION: TurnagainObserver: G. PredegerDate: May 6th, 2013 Location: Turnagain Pass (with map) Observation: Thanks to the crew who sent this photo in and shared this close call with us! This cornice failed after several minutes of moving around on the ridge and ultimately took out about 6' of older snowmachine tracks. This proves a great reminder of how "loose" cornices are becoming in our region, particularly late in the day. Cornices deserve a wide berth when traveling above or below and as >>>> see observation for complete description View Complete |
 5 images | REGION: TurnagainObserver: Public ObserverDate: Apr 26th, 2013 Location: Magnum / Sunburst (with map) Observation: Toured up the NE ridge of Magnum where we found breakable crust down low followed by windslab at the rollover. Continuing on we pushed up to the top staying well away from the cornice that hangs over the S face. Once on top we leaned over the S face at the point where the cornice doesn't overhang, however even then we heard and felt settling and quickly backed off. We then skied a north facing >>>> see observation for complete description View Complete |
|
No photo
| REGION: SummitObserver: Joe StockDate: Apr 26th, 2013 Location: Hale Bop (with map) Observation: Hi Friends! Today we skied at Summit Lake, up the creek between Raven Ridge and Butch to Hale Bop, and down Butcher Creek to Tenderfoot. On the ascent it was crusty to 4,000' then became dry snow with older and newer windslab to the summit at 5,000'. The new windslab was whoomphing to 100 feet away. Skiing into Butcher Creek was nice down to 3500', then became breakable crust on all aspec >>>> see observation for complete description View Complete |
|
No photo
| REGION: TurnagainObserver: Public ObserverDate: Apr 26th, 2013 Location: Granddaddy, Manitoba (with map) Observation: 4-25 skied up bertha creek and up north ridge of granddaddy. Once on the ridge we began to hear quite a lot of whoomphing. at the large flat spot before the final bump up to the summit, we heard multiple very large whoomphs. no cracking or any other signs of instability were observed, but the freguency( almost the entire way up the ridge), and size (my partners 200 feet behind me said >>>> see observation for complete description View Complete |
|
No photo
| REGION: TurnagainObserver: Joe StockDate: Apr 25th, 2013 Location: Eddies and Tincan (with map) Observation: Hi Friends, As we toured up Eddies the snow went from frozen solid supportable to a one-inch heat? crust just below the final pitch at 3,000 feet. While skiing the south side into Ingram Creek at 12noon we pushed off small wet loose slides from our skis at the top, to good wet snow skiing at the bottom near Ingram Creek. The north side of Tincan was crust during out ascent, but the south >>>> see observation for complete description View Complete |
|
No photo
| REGION: TurnagainObserver: Public ObserverDate: Apr 21st, 2013 Location: Pete's South (with map) Observation: Hiked to treeline on Pete's South yesterday. Observed small pockets of knife hard wind slabs on the way up. They are just about 1-2" thick but slid easily in hand shear tests. Skiing down was mostly on top of the old suncrust with some surprising turns sinking through. View Complete |
 |
SNOW AND AVALANCHE HOTLINE (907) 754-2369 If you have comments regarding CNFAIC operations or winter recreation managment, please email kevin@chugachavalanche.org
© 2013 Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center. All rights reserved. |
 |
By clicking the links below, the companies will donate a portion of your purchase price to the Friends of CNFAIC. Click here for more deals
