February 23

Broads Fork-Diving Board

Elevations, slope angles and aspects

6300-10800', angles over 35°, north and east facing aspects.

Snow conditions

2-4" light density new snow over a sun, wind or rime crusted old surface.

The new provided a good cushion over the old, somewhat variable, old surface.

Ski cutting produced a shallow fracture of the fresh here and there, lacking punch.

Weather

Clear skies, light wind, mild temperatures.

Avalanche activity

I saw a glide slide on Sunday while passing through.

It's not often possible to get an up close and personal of one of those so...

Diving board crown

glide-crown

glide crack

diving-board-glide

Other activity in the area was limited to rollers and small point release sluffing off heated rocks.

Evaluation

Good stability, isolated drifting

Future instability would be from any new snow amount, bonding, wind and or warming.

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