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We made it up to ~6500’ in the #NoFo (North Fork) #EagleRiver area today to survey the terrain post storms this week. There’s a few to several inches of recent #snow (increasing with elevation) that has not been very wind affected (i.e. good riding quality). However, we found further evidence of wind and persistent slab #avalanche problems, and heavy human triggered sluffing should be expected on steep slopes. Terrain management is the name of the game. Choose your terrain wisely if recreating in the Western #Chugach #Mountains of #ChugachStatePark this weekend. We definitely recommend avoiding leeward upper elevation slopes steeper than 35* where a human triggered fracture has the potential to propagate widely and create a large, high consequence, and difficult to escape hard slab avalanche.

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