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Apr 18, 2022:
Apr 18, 2022
Apr 16, 2022:
Apr 16, 2022
Apr 16, 2022:
Apr 16, 2022
Apr 8, 2022: S and SE aspects above tree-line are burning out rapidly in the Mammoth area. N aspects are variable in their surface depending on surrounding terrain and the level of shelter.
Apr 8, 2022
Apr 8, 2022: Old size 1 Wet-Loose avalanche in the Red Cone area.
Apr 8, 2022
Apr 2, 2022: E facing ribbon of snow from 11100'.
Apr 2, 2022
Apr 2, 2022: False White Mountain and the Tioga Pass region April 2nd.
Apr 2, 2022
Mar 29, 2022: Pleasent dust on crust conditions on northerly aspects
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022: 15cm new on windloaded northerly aspects, Mt Olsen ~10.600ft
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022: Minor, sensitive cornice development above southerly aspects ~11000ft
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022: Ski cut triggered Soft slab avalanche on Esha peak
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022: Ski cut triggered Soft slab avalanche on Esha peak
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 26, 2022: Natural D1.5 pt release from headwall of Elderberry canyon last 48hrs
Mar 26, 2022
Mar 26, 2022: Solid hike to access diminishing snow on mt tom
Mar 26, 2022
Mar 26, 2022: 100% unsupportable snow below 9000ft today on Mt Tom
Mar 26, 2022
Mar 26, 2022: Finding the smooth ancient wind board for good turns, ,Mt Tom
Mar 26, 2022
Mar 25, 2022: Old avalanche debris and dirty snow in Esha Canyon.
Mar 25, 2022
Mar 25, 2022: Esha Peak coverage.
Mar 25, 2022
Mar 24, 2022: Lakes getting blue with free water pooling on the surface
Mar 24, 2022
Mar 24, 2022: Roller balling and very moist surface conditions, 10400ft East aspect 930am
Mar 24, 2022
Mar 24, 2022: Above boot top penetration on East Aspect, 10400ft 930am.
Mar 24, 2022
Mar 23, 2022: Pockets of mush kept us on our toes and resulted in one close call, where the snow collapsed on the some stacked rocks along the summer trail just bellow shadow lake
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022: Small natural loose wet slide that occured at some point between 9am and 1pm, just below the minarets.
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022: Beautiful to catch the sunrise at shadow lake
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022: Shallow transitional areas @ 11500ft E aspect not supportive to boot penetration,
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022: Trench warfare condtions ~10000ft on previously non-wind affected E-NE aspects, buttermilk country
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022: Dwindling coverage on Basin mountain
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 20, 2022: Soft wind slab debris and crown above - Mammoth lakes basin
Mar 20, 2022
Mar 20, 2022:
Mar 20, 2022
Mar 18, 2022: 2-3cm ski penetration on westerly aspects 10K-7500K San Joaquin Cyn
Mar 18, 2022
Mar 18, 2022: 2-3cm ski penetration on south aspects @ 230pm
Mar 18, 2022
Mar 17, 2022: Whitebark pine Graveyard outside of June Mtns boundary getting more difficult to navigate
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022: Cloud cover keeping things locked up on St Paddys
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022: Robust sastrugi is abundant, hour glass/June area
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022: Waning coverage on Mt. Wood
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 16, 2022: Free water running underneath snowpack 9600ft East Aspect, Red Cone Approach
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022: Minor wind slab on N aspect Red Cone Bowl, 10400ft
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022: Recent loose wet slides in devils slide
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 15, 2022: melt freeze chains in the low angle trees on punta bardini around 8300 ft
Mar 15, 2022
Mar 15, 2022: Lots of recent broken snags, branches and tree debree in the forest on punta bardini
Mar 15, 2022
Mar 13, 2022: Cross loading on a small terrain feature approaching tree line.
Mar 13, 2022
Mar 11, 2022: Variable snow surfaces underneath the Mammoth crest,
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022: Surface wind slab, spatially variable
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 9, 2022: glopping at low elevations in LV canyon,
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022: Southside of LV canyon burned out
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022: Decent 3
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 8, 2022:
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Mar 8, 2022:
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 8, 2022:
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 7, 2022:
Mar 7, 2022
Mar 7, 2022:
Mar 7, 2022
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Mar 7, 2022
Mar 6, 2022: Reactive Wind slabs, Red cone shoulder
Mar 6, 2022
Mar 6, 2022: Reactive Wind slabs, red cone shoulder - 18
Mar 6, 2022
Mar 6, 2022: Natural Wind slab on the Sierra crest. Jaws, Mammoth Lakes Basin
Mar 6, 2022
Mar 5, 2022: WndSlb 8
Mar 5, 2022
Mar 5, 2022: negatives conditions March 5
Mar 5, 2022
Mar 5, 2022: dust on crust conditions down low
Mar 5, 2022
Mar 3, 2022: Mt Gibbs from upper meadows in Bohler canyon
Mar 3, 2022
Mar 3, 2022: Mt lewis, north side
Mar 3, 2022
Mar 2, 2022: Wintry snow on the n-aspect, corn on the E-SE Basin mtn
Mar 2, 2022
Mar 2, 2022: Sastrugi and transitional snow types that were softened by 1pm above 11500' Basin mtn
Mar 2, 2022
Mar 2, 2022: Firm, smooth and 2-4cm surface warming on E aspect, E gully Basin mtn
Mar 2, 2022
Mar 1, 2022:
Mar 1, 2022
Feb 25, 2022: Trace new snow on south aspect.
Feb 25, 2022
Feb 25, 2022: ECTN at old snow/new snow interface
Feb 25, 2022
Feb 24, 2022: 10,500 East aspect Coke Chute, Lee Vining Zone
Feb 24, 2022
Feb 22, 2022:
Feb 22, 2022
Feb 20, 2022: Facets just bellow the crust at 7200 feet on Red Mountain's North Face
Feb 20, 2022
Feb 17, 2022: The high starting zones in the Negatives were mostly stripped by upslope winds. Solar bowl and the lookers right side appear to be back to the old melt/freeze surface.
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 17, 2022: Slight rolling transport of low density surface snow refilling skin track in some locations.
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 14, 2022:
Feb 14, 2022
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Feb 13, 2022
Feb 13, 2022:
Feb 13, 2022
Feb 12, 2022:
Feb 12, 2022
Feb 12, 2022:
Feb 12, 2022
Feb 12, 2022: Wind sculpturing under the East Peak of Dana
Feb 12, 2022
Feb 8, 2022: enough warming on due east aspect low angle terrain for good turns @ 130pm
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022: Dwindling snow pack in rock creek canyon
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022:
Feb 8, 2022
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Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022:
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 7, 2022: Birch Mtn SE side
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022: Surface grains on SE ~9000ft starting to resemble true corn
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022: Lots of 3-dimensional surfaces on SE
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022: Cool Bear or Mountain Lion scarred Aspen trees along Tinemaha creek
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 5, 2022:
Feb 5, 2022
Feb 5, 2022:
Feb 5, 2022
Feb 3, 2022: 8500ft conditions, Lundy Canyon area
Feb 3, 2022
Feb 3, 2022: Massive surface hoar found along Lundy Creek
Feb 3, 2022
Feb 2, 2022: Snow surfaces faceting, 5-15cm ski penetration in n-facing sheltered trees
Feb 2, 2022
Feb 2, 2022: Large 1cm surface hoar in Lee Vining Cyn
Feb 2, 2022
Jan 29, 2022: MtThompson and easterly upper Sabrina Basin in John Muir Wilderness
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 29, 2022: Piute Pass as of Jan 29
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 29, 2022: Road to lk Sabrina melting out
Jan 29, 2022
Jan 26, 2022: Consolidating spring like snowpack on SE aspects @ 10500ft
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022: SE aspect @ ~9200ft
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 25, 2022: Ski-turn penetration on the way down at 8,300' at 1pm, south aspect.
Jan 25, 2022
Jan 23, 2022: Dwindling snow on the sunny aspects of McGee
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 23, 2022: SE snowfield at top of easterly gully, McGee Mtn, due south devoid of snow
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 22, 2022: NNE aspect 9700ft Lee vining cyn
Jan 22, 2022
Jan 22, 2022: northerly terrain 9400ft lee vining cyn
Jan 22, 2022
Jan 22, 2022: 3-5mm Surface hoar up to the summit of Mt Downs
Jan 22, 2022
Jan 21, 2022: Bannering snow from N winds on Sierra Crest, Evolution pks area
Jan 21, 2022
Jan 21, 2022: Surface faceting in sheltered n facing trees, 8600ft
Jan 21, 2022
Jan 17, 2022: Recent roof avalanche in Mammoth triggered by the recent warm temperatures, covering half the road. Could surely have buried someone in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022: Near surface facets and windstrewn needle cast 10300ft rock creek
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022: Upper Hilton Lks zone
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022: 8600ft rock creek
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 16, 2022: East Gully Mt Tom @ 1pm
Jan 16, 2022
Jan 16, 2022: ESE on E Gully Mt Tom @ 1245pm
Jan 16, 2022
Jan 15, 2022: Cloudy Skies in the Chicken Wing area
Jan 15, 2022
Jan 14, 2022: Booting at ~10,200' on SE aspect of McGee at 10:40am.
Jan 14, 2022
Jan 11, 2022: 10-15cm moist surface grains on SE aspect 9500'
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 11, 2022: South side of Bishop Bowl Knob
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 11, 2022: Minor roller balling on turns SE aspect 9500' @ 1230pm NF Bishop Creek, 35cm total depth
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 10, 2022: Grey skies and calm conditions, Jan 10
Jan 10, 2022
Jan 10, 2022: Conditions within tree'd terrain, June Area, Jan 10
Jan 10, 2022
Jan 9, 2022: Ice ax and crampons a must in this steep NW facing couloir.
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 9, 2022: East aspect, Basin Mtn 10K
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 9, 2022: east aspect, Basin Mtn
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 9, 2022: approach to Basin Mtn, Jan 9
Jan 9, 2022
Jan 8, 2022: Widespread very firm conditions below Mini-Morrison.
Jan 8, 2022
Jan 8, 2022: Natural wind slab avalanche releasing on facets ~12/29 - Old Man's Bowl
Jan 8, 2022
Jan 7, 2022: Red Mtn NE 10,400' - basal facets, modified deep tap ECTP21
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 7, 2022: shallow small wind-slabs Sherwins
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 2, 2022: Cross loaded NW aspect ~9300ft
Jan 2, 2022
Jan 2, 2022: Significant settlement ~9000ft
Jan 2, 2022
Jan 2, 2022: Shallow windslab on NW-N aspects ~9k
Jan 2, 2022
Jan 1, 2022:
Jan 1, 2022
Jan 1, 2022: Hemlock/Ghost trees - natural wind slab avalanche likely occurring on Dec 31.
Jan 1, 2022
Jan 1, 2022: Small pocket of softer wind deposit mid-way down negatives.
Jan 1, 2022
Dec 31, 2021:
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021: Reactive shallow windslab on ski turns 230pm, convict area
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021: Westerly winds @ 8500ft, Convict area
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021: Calmer, sunny conditions morning of Dec 31, soon to change in afternoon, convict area
Dec 31, 2021
Dec 30, 2021: Fresh, shallow wind slab development on NE aspect 10,300ft
Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021: Inversion over the Owens Valley, mid-day Dec 30
Dec 30, 2021
Dec 30, 2021: SW winds on Table Mtn
Dec 30, 2021
Dec 29, 2021: Mt Tom NE @ 9800ft
Dec 29, 2021
Dec 29, 2021: Mt Tom 5600ft
Dec 29, 2021
Dec 28, 2021: Wind stripped slopes and ridge lines
Dec 28, 2021
Dec 28, 2021: Punta Bardini Old Growth - 9,700' - Full Depth sow pit (265cm).
Dec 28, 2021
Dec 28, 2021: Punta Bardini Old Growth Full-Depth profile, Deep Tap test failure - 23 taps on basal facets
Dec 28, 2021
Dec 27, 2021:
Dec 27, 2021
Dec 27, 2021:
Dec 27, 2021
Dec 26, 2021: Strong SW winds blowing snow - Bishop Creek
Dec 26, 2021
Dec 26, 2021: Evidence of large avalanche on McGee Mtn. Crown is already blown in.
Dec 26, 2021
Dec 24, 2021:
Dec 24, 2021
Dec 23, 2021:
Dec 23, 2021
Dec 23, 2021:
Dec 23, 2021
Dec 23, 2021:
Dec 23, 2021
Dec 21, 2021: Ascent up Table Mountain from 4-Jeffery Campground
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 21, 2021: Very right-side-up stable snowpack on Earthquake Dome (Dec 21, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 21, 2021:
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 20, 2021: 9,700', NNW aspect above V-Bowl (Lee Vining Can)
Dec 20, 2021
Dec 18, 2021:
Dec 18, 2021
Nov 30, 2021: 11,800' on East aspect just below Summit Ridge of False White
Nov 30, 2021

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