April 3
Brighton-Twin Lakes-Grizzly Gulch-Silver Fork-Solitude
Elevations, slope angles and aspects
7800-10400', angles over 35°, all aspects except south facing.
Snow conditions
Snow showers all day. Settled storm total of about 12-14".
Light density over high density over rain crust was the layering.
Cool temperatures froze up the rain beginning the storm at all elevations.
It was supportable but, a little punchy below about 8k.
Sluffing within new snow was common on steeper slopes.
A patch of clearing revealed one sluff initiating a small shallow slab, lookers left, in the east bowl of Silver Fork.
Weather
Snow , heavy at times, decreasing in the afternoon. Temperatures were cool, wind from the west, gusting over 30 mph along the ridges.
Evaluation
Instability was sluffing of new snow.
Would expect good settlement with scattered active wind drifts on lee aspects , especially at upper elevations.
Wet activity possible with warming.
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