Avalanche Updates

This blog provides updates on avalanche incidents and other news that I hope will be of educational value to my avalanche safety course students. In the summer and fall I'll shift the focus a bit to SAR topics for my Mountain Travel & Rescue students. I'll also toss in some springtime beta on Presidentials ski conditions. (And of course I probably won't be able to resist the occasional Micayla snow-related picture...)

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Tricky Tahoe Snowpack

The Lake Tahoe snowpack was so thin that even Alpine Meadows was planning to close in mid-April.
But recently nine feet of snow arrived.  (Yes, feet, not inches.)

To demonstrate the impact on backcountry snow stability, here is a video of an avalanche forecaster's Propagation Saw Test:

Posted by Jonathan S. Shefftz at 10:18 AM
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