Somewhere else. I do know that the Keblar/Irwin area has similarly unusually heavy snowfall for Colorado though. As do a few other areas I don't really visit.



Yes, very much a dangerous game....

Ah, yes, of course. My bad. But I know the history and current conditions of my specific region well enough that I rule out certain terrain before I even see evidence of other activity. So those obs...

Before I had kids, agreed. A buddy of mine has pulled two bodies out in one year and it really fucked with his head for a long time. It's easy to underestimate the impact an incident has to even...

Other than snowpack depth by a combo of hasty deep pits in strategic areas alongside frequent visitation and significant local knowledge? No. Most Obs outside of those are useless for PWL management...

There's a few areas across Colorado that have insane orograohics, which is why I called out the Keblar pass region in my earlier comments about PWL bridging. I also rely on this as part of PWL...

From what I understand, the remote trigger slides were a southern aspect? We see activity all the time this time of year on solar aspects in our local terrain that have no relation to the stability...

We basically always have that layer in Colorado. What happens is eventually it gets buried deep enough that the midpack bridges the layer and you can ski avalanche terrain again if you have history...