All Reports 27
Event date: July 19, 2013
Date published: February 3, 2019
Mountain/Ski Guide Maritime Wet Slab Wet Slab Serious Severity
Just finished descending Cat Scratch Gullies, the descent route of the West Ridge of Forbidden Peak in the North Cascades when large blocks of snow and ice began rumbling down the descent route. We were able to run as fast as we could to the right o ...
Event date: April 1, 2012
Date published: February 3, 2019
Ski Area Maritime Wet Loose Wet Loose Moderate Severity
Snowed a little overnight (6-8") with wind transport. The middle part of my snow safety route that day is a long south/southeast facing section that gets flatter the farther you go along it. Typically we shoot the early steeper paths and once we st ...
Event date: March 11, 2001
Date published: November 29, 2018
Ski Area Maritime Wind Slab Soft Slab Moderate Severity
Morning snow safety operations did not produce any significant results after approximately 12 inches of overnight snow and wind transport. Several hours after opening an area, a snowboarder triggered a medium sized avalanche that briefly caught and ...
Event date: February 14, 2011
Date published: November 28, 2018
Ski Area Maritime Storm Slab Soft Slab Serious Severity
Working a snow safety route with my fairly new and not very sharp partner. The first section of the route is on a ridge where the responsibility is the slope below and cornice. I was frustrated with his failure to follow directions and the amount o ...
Event date: December 1, 2012
Date published: November 28, 2018
Ski Area Maritime Storm Slab Soft Slab Serious Severity
My partner and I were making a second pass on our mitigation route to take care of some small cornice. My partner kicked a piece of cornice and fell off the ridge with it but stopped at the top of the slope, only 6-8 feet below the ridge. With mini ...