Public Observation

Observation Date:

January 31, 2022

Submitted:

February 1, 2022

Zone or Region:

Boulder/Jughandle Area

Activity:

Snowmobiling/Snowbiking

Location:

Kennally Lake

Did you trigger any avalanches?

Yes

Was it intentional?

No

Avalanche Type:

Dry Loose (Sluff)

Size:

Size 1: Relatively harmless to people

Elevation:

7600

Aspect:

S

Comments:

Dry loose snow was moving engulfing the front of the snowmobile. Not big but has potential on bigger slopes.

None reported

PAC toured the Boulder Lake Zone on Monday...The upper foot of the snowpack is unconsolidated and can move with you. We toured a lot of terrain where tracks from a few days ago had almost disappeared. It snowed pretty hard during most of the day. The upper snowpack has some mixed weak layers: graupel, near-surface facets, and potentially surface hoar...this may take a week or more to bond. Winds were light, travel was good, we felt good about the conditions, but would be concerned in exposed longer steeper sustained slopes where you could be taken off course or wind loaded corniced terrain.