Just rode greaseball which is lookers left side of argentina skinner, a very rocky steep shot. It was a mistake. It has obviously slid guessing during or after 100" storm, not sure if udot bombed this.
Very thin snow. Hit a bunch of rocks found thin 2-3' deep junk snow pack. Lots of sugar snow capped with the past few storms of nice snow. I do not trust this slope.
The snow here is 2-3' deep. The lower 1/2 of it is smaller grain facets or sugar snow. There is 1' of fresher snow on top from the past few storms which might be getting weaker. Boot penetration is to the ground. Even Hand penetration is to the ground, digging hand pit was nothing. Guessing fist, definitely nothing harder than 4 fingers.
I would personal avoid this slope. You will either hit rocks or you could wait for more snow...BUT. ...If there is enough snow (loading/slab) to avoid rocks it will likely repeat avalanche. I would guess that this thin junk pack @ greaseballs will not heal for awhile. There are quite a few undocumented slides from that 100" storm. Catchers mitt had a few.
Widespread Sluffing 10" deep in steeps here today.
Pic of tree, even hitting rocks, a nice day in mountain, felt cooler today in the argentina ice box. Even so bottom 1/3 of argentina cooked. Very light breeze on peak. no snow transport. Thick clouds, little sun. Exit @1pm
Forecaster note: Both the
Greaseball and
Argenta slide paths produced large explosive triggered avalanches in mid-February. Nearby, God's Lawnmower produced a
large natural avalanche a few days prior to the explosive triggered slides. Greg Gagne examined the snowpack in the Lawnmower in this
observation.
