Axtell

The snowpack was much less talkative than in the heat of the storm yesterday; we had very few signs of instability along our route up, mostly in sheltered BTL terrain, and had to really work for a couple of collapses on the ridge of east-facing terrain features where slabs were thick. However, when we found a thinner area in the slab, on a wind erroded north facing ridgeline, we triggered a large avalanche that failed on a persistent weak layer (02/11 interface). This avalanche propagated across the entirety of the terrain feature, over 200 ft wide and ran over 1,500 vertical ft, through trees and cliffs; most likely an unsurvivable avalanche. 

Snowpack was much quieter than yesterday. Had to work for a few small collapses along the ridge of 1st and 2nd bowls, then triggered a large avalanche in the eraser.

As we gained elevation and the ridgeline, the snow surface became more wind-affected, and in these places ski-pen was much shallower. On one wind-eroded ridge line, the new snow depth was about 30cm. Slabs were much thicker in fetches on the ridgetop, and in east-facing terrain, similar to the terrain in Evan's Basin, which was reactive yesterday, we were unable to affect the weak layers from the ridge as we jumped, plunged, and walked by with only a few isolated collapses and cracking off our skis in the new snow.

A skier had skied laps into the 2nd bowl both yesterday and today without visible results.