Quick report
Recent snow has made riding conditions great on N aspects. I'm not sure how much of this snow fell overnight.
Overall stability "seemed" pretty good but I didn't dig to the ground to check out snow at the ground. We avoided any slope that is more northerly and has a thin snowpack. Otherwise we climbed a few pretty steep hills and felt good about it. We also avoided any fresh wind drifts.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Saw one wind slab that released naturally. It was maybe 75-100 feet wide and ran 200 vertical feet, We watched someone high mark then climb to the top of the adjacent slope. Nothing cracked or moved for him. Overall, wind transport seemed minor except in this one spot. Notice the wind transport of snow above the avalanche but not much along the ridge to the left of the slide. Perhaps this is why a rider was able to climb the adjacent slope without incident.</p>
It was hard to tell how much new snow fell Tues night/Wed morning. Maybe only a few inches, but it felt much deeper on N aspects.