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With the first bit of nice weather after another big storm cycle the CAA issued an avalanche warning. The recent weather had come in from the SW as usual so we guessed that windward slopes might have had surface hoar and near surface facets knocked out by wind. Accordingly we picked the S faces of Rohr in the Duffey (the big slidepaths descending to Hwy 99 and headed there.
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