A “scary-looking avalanche” happened near a group of skiers Thursday, said an official from the avalanche center. No one was caught, but officials are concerned large avalanches could be possible.
Rising temperatures and rain will create dangerous avalanche conditions through the weekend in Southcentral Alaska, but officials say there is also concern that the weather pattern could break into older, deeper layers of snow — leading to larger and more unpredictable avalanches in coming weeks.
“If I had been a few more paces out on the wind slab I likely would have been carried down the north chute 2000′ to the valley floor,” the skier wrote. “Just after Christmas we had a really significant warmup and even the ridge tops got so warm that it created what we call a melt-freeze crust on the surface all the way to the ridge tops,” Wagner said. “And that has now been covered with several feet of snow. But those crusts can do strange things — which is what we saw at Tincan.”in the last few days, although Wagner said they were smaller.
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