Be sure to join us at Big Pine Sports on Thursday, January 25th for a free avalanche presentation. DETAILS HERE
We are offering a Motorized Backcountry 101 avalanche class on February 10th. DETAILS HERE
Saturday was a pleasant day in the hills with mostly sunny skies and mild temperatures. Sunny facing slopes became damp and then crusted as they refroze. Nice cold powder was found by many on the shady aspects.
Collapsing continued to be the rule and not the exception. My partner and I traveled on skis and continually experienced startling large collapses that made us stop. We felt the snow drop on a number of these.
Another party of 4 had hit a meadow on Snowmobiles pretty hard, carving and playing on small hills. They regrouped in the center of the meadow to take a break. After a minute or two, the entire meadow collapsed underneath them.
On Saturday, a snowmobiler in Ephraim Canyon triggered an avalanche while approaching a slope from the bottom. The slope was just east of the popular snowmobile hill "The Monster". The rider was not caught or injured. DETAILS Photo: Pickle
Another avalanche was reported which appears to have released naturally at the tail end of the Wednesday's storm. This was also in Ephraim Canyon on the second bench of Philadelphia Flats. DETAILS Photo: Mike Stevens
