Bacon Rind

Bacon Rind

Date
Activity
Skiing

ALERT! THE GREAT BACON RIND SLIDE OF 2021! Photos attached!
I found a small piece of this mostly low angle slope to have avalanched, probably from a day or two ago, a handful of older tracks were near it. I measure most of this slope around 26-28 degrees, I always wonder if there is enough 30+ slope angle to pull out into lower angle terrain here, I guess for now there isn’t. This is on the farthest south part of the top meadow.

An epic amount of whumphs up there, I stopped counting after I got to 10 on my second switch back. Our best one knocked snow out of a tree 100’ away. It feels like remote triggering is a very real possibility.

Skies were more overcast than expected. While it never went blue, the sun poked out a little in the afternoon. Cold temps, 0F in the AM, warmed to 24F in the PM. 5-6mm surface hoar everywhere, it made for good fast skiing!

Thanks for everything you guys do!
Spencer

Region
Southern Madison
Location (from list)
Bacon Rind
Observer Name
Spencer Jonas