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This is our last update for the season, travel safe in the mountains and enjoy the great spring conditions.

We witnessed numerous natural small wet slides and caught this one just as it slowed down around 11am on this South aspect

Saturday March 13, 2021 test pit East of McCall

Soft snow survived on North aspects and was nice with a fresh blanket of new snow on top

Near Secesh Summit at 9am...we witnessed South winds all day throw multiple plumes of snow ripping off the mountain tops and ridges loading snow

2/26/2021 looking West on Green Mountain at Northwest winds driving the snow across the ridge to the south creating slabs, snowing hard!

Back to back storm cycles and buried weak layers have contributed to several avalanche incidents over the last 10 days

Feb 11, 2021

While touring the ridge of Sawtooth Peak, looking for a reported skier slide in “Electric Company”, that caught 2 skiers the day before, we remote triggered this R4D3 Avalanche on a NW aspect around 7600 ft, that ran on large well preserved buried surface Hoar.

North of Mccall, Above Lake Serene at 7800 Ft watching the wind blowing snow and forming slabs

Monday alarming CT scores on mid pack facets that produced Natural Avalanches

Dec 17, 2020: ECTP11, Q1+

Dec 17, 2020

Short video of poor snowpack structure in the West Central Mountains.

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