Recent Avalanches

Rapid Warming

As advertised, there were a ton of small-to-medium sized avalanches yesterday on 35+ degree slopes (see pic for one reference); most natural, a few looked skier-triggered. I was only on E facing yesterday and got wettish slides, but clearly there was not a good bond on north facing either, at least for the high PI that burst out yesterday. But as Drew mentioned this morning, this stuff seemed to tighten up fast, with me and others able to ski relatively steep north facing lines without a problem. Some very minor sluffing in some steep trees, but in the more exposed areas there wasn't much. I watched a smallish natural wet slide come off of the E face of the Rocky Nob below No Name late morning (see pic) and kind of anticipated seeing that pick up as the day went on, but there was less of that than anticipated, even on the big S. facing lines across the valley (I was hoping that LCC wasn't going to have an afternoon closure). But maybe if it is a few degrees warmer on Tue that new snow might come unglued?