Shooting cracks and unstable pit on Alex Lowe

Shooting cracks and unstable pit on Alex Lowe

Date
Activity
Skiing

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.

Region
Northern Gallatin
Location (from list)
Alex Lowe Peak
Observer Name
Spencer