Recent Avalanches

Poor Snowpack Structure

Yesterday's solar radiation on the upper (SW, S, SSE) slopes and cliff bands of Tanner's caused numerous fairly voluminous wet-loose slides up to ~10,400'. In isolated under-cliff areas some of these triggered 2-4' deep slabs (Pics 1-4). For the most part the wet-loose debris did not gouge into old snow layers but some piles were solidly D2 and covered many sections of previous party's skin/ski tracks (possibly from the 8th?) Overall the moderate-to-steep southerly aspects got cooked into a 1-3 cm breakable crust that may served as a hard, planar interface for tonight's storm snow to slide on depending on how well it bonds. Further down-drainage there is evidence of small glides along the smooth rock slabs (Pic 5, 6). None of them extensive due to the concave terrain below them but always interesting to check out true "to the ground" avalanche pieces.