Yesterday I was able to go take a look at three different snowmobile triggered avalanches that occurred on Tuesday, Jan 8th. None of the riders were caught. The avalanches were all about 2' deep and broke into a layer of older snow that became weak when it was on the surface during the mid December dry spell. These were in Staker and Rolfson canyons which are areas that received the most snow out of the last storm. During my examinations I did not think that the mid December weak layer was actually all that weak. My hope is that it is not going to turn into a "persistent weak layer" that continues to produce avalanches. Things have stabilized over the last few days and it seems unlikely that this type of avalanche would release today.

Below is a list of all the avalanche activity that was reported from this week. There are a number of photos in each report.