Shooting cracks and unstable pit on Alex Lowe

Alex Lowe Peak
Northern Gallatin
Code
Elevation
9500
Aspect
E
Latitude
45.42720
Longitude
-111.01400
Notes

From obs 3/6/22: "Skinned out to Alex Lowe peak today. Dug a pit on a northeast aspect below the east face of the peak. Got an ECTP 24 to break around 20 cm down. The slab was a knife hard sun/wind crust. Continued up avoiding areas where we noticed that bullet hard crust under the surface. On our decent we skied off the east ridge below the summit and on a skit cut got some shooting cracks, and a small wind slap to propagate but not slide. Skied the rest of the way down and didn’t notice anything else."

Number of slides
0
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Problem Type
Wind-Drifted Snow
Slab Thickness units
centimeters
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Red Flag
Advisory Year