Rising Wolf Mountain

Quick report

Celebrated 406 day with a bright sunny day on the east side of Glacier Park. • Despite ample sunshine and warm temps, dry powder snow survived on north facing slopes down to about 7000'. Unfortunately, what the sun didn't spoil, was mostly worked over by the wind. creating a patchwork of windboard, rock, ice, and wind buff across the alpine. • We noted several large hard slab avalanches in the area and also some loose snow avalanches scattered about. • We were honestly a bit surprised to not see larger and more widespread loose wet avalanche activity, given the decent refresh of snowfall last week followed by intense sunny weather this weekend. • We even noticed tracks from a party of two skiers that appeared on a steep south facing slope on Red Mountain pretty late in the day. We first saw the tracks at about 4pm and believe they were not present on the slope before 3pm. From a distance it appeared that the skiers found excellent corn without causing any loose wet slides. We could only see their tracks down to about 7500' though, so it's possible that things got sloppy below that elevation. • Overall, snow coverage and travel was quite pleasant. The Dry Fork Trail is about 90% covered in snow with an average total height of snow of ~2 feet. • Plenty of fresh bear sign out there and the "Scenic Bowl" area on the north side of scenic point remains posted for bear frequenting due to a recent conflict reported with a Grizzly in that drainage.