We rode to the Red Meadow Lake area to assess new snow hazards and survey avalanches from last week, as well as check the site for a proposed new weather station on the summit of Link Mountain.
To 7200 ft
Two deep crowns visible near top of rock chutes but below ridge. Hard to estimate depth - 5'? Depth suggests hard slabs failing on old snow, or just a crap-ton of new and drifted snow that failed, possibly when it warmed. Lake surface (ice) mostly covered with debris; edges showed escarpments suggesting ice dropped from weight of debris, or moved up and down as hit with debris. It didn't appear to have broken, because of the debris on the ice. We didn't ride around shore to look for fish. Didn't see a crown in more northerly path, though perhaps that also failed and produced some of the debris on the lake's east end.
Distinct crown visible on steep nose well below ridge crest. Crown linked across nearly all of potentail start zone; estimating vertical run, depth, and date.
Debris from a series of loose wet snow slides above groomed trail; all but one stopped about 75 vertical feet above road. Largest crossed road and left about 10' of debris on road.
Crown and debris-covered tracks and runouts visible on E facing chutes on Pt. 7272, S Fork of Shorty Creek. Looked to have run full path.
