Face shots and wet slides
Taldor, The Restless Ape, Pyrofloptic and I hit the Fire Plug yesterday. AWESOME snow on the north side, shitacular snow on the south.
Pyrofloptic set off a wet slide on the south face of the Fire Plug that ran all the way to the bottom. It moved slowly and took the snow down to the layer before the Friday night storm. It was sketch. Big enough to bury a person or a small black dog who likes to chase snow balls. Pyro was able to call Juni off. She was chasing the damn thing down the hill!
Watch your top-knot out there.
Check out the recent Tahoe avalanche observations from the Sierra Avalanche Center.
-M
Went out this a.m. to Fireplug again. 3 slides for 3 skiers, no one took a ride but AP set off a moderate slide by stopping hard on a wind-loaded bulge. The slope broke up and accelerated down into the trees, about 8-10″ deep and 30-40 feet across. Another was skier cut and a smaller one went a few turns into one of the north facing chutes off the top. Lots of motion out there this morning near wind loaded north-northeast trending ridges. Aside from taking extra caution, the snow was great!