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North Castle Peak
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Location Name: North Castle Peak Region: Donner Summit Area Date and time of observation: Mon, 01/29/2018 - 13:00 |
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Location Map: United States
39° 21' 47.7684" N, 120° 20' 37.8672" W
See map: Google Maps
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Red Flags: Recent avalanche activity Recent loading by new snow, wind, or rain Rapid warming |
Observation made by: Public
Any other comments about the observation or links to outside pages that have more info on the observation:
Warm, soggy and thin approach picking our way through the rocks and trees and across the creeks from the rest area. Not much direct sun on the southerly approch slopes so they stayed reletively firm despite the warm temps...slushy on the way out but no rollerballs and not too sticky. However lots of traversing and little turnable snow on the way back to the truck.
North Bowl was heavily tracked. No new signs of instability or avalanche activity. Some cornice fall and light debris was still visible on upper slopes but did not appear widespread. Signs of old crowns from windslab slides that had likely failed during the stom but filled back in.
Snow in N Bowl was consolidated and appeared well bonded. Other groups were observed skiing the steepest most heavily windloaded aspects with no signs of instability.
