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Observation: Silver/Days

mark white, kobernik, kendallSalt Lake
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Quick report

Skied a variety of aspects today S,N NE, NW, and E, only instabilities we were finding was a density inversion between yesterdays 4 inches and the 6 from last night and this morning.You could get some soft slabs to crack out in steeper terrain but I would put it in the very manageable category. The softs slabs were not running very fast and not leaving very large debris piles. You could pretty much tell which slopes would crack out and which wouldn't' by looking at the slope angle and wind loading on said slope. sluffs were also running in the steeper terrain but just like the soft slabs they were very manageable Photos.

Shooting cracks in the new snow in steeper terrain.

Flank of a soft slab that pulled out in Jaws.

Sluffing on the Silver Fork headwall.

Wind speeds tonight will probably be the wild card for stability tomorrow, would think the density inversion would settle out quickly.

Video: Kobernik

Snowpack

About a total of 10 inches of new light density snow, resting in a variety of bed surfaces from firm crust on S,E,and W soft base on NE,NW, and N.