Ruby Dyke

The snowpack has an old, mature springpack look, and the snow coverage looks like mid-May.  Yet wet avalanches involving the entire snowpack remain easy to trigger and continue to run naturally, particularly in terrain that held a drier snowpack up until last week: east, west, and even some north.  In areas where the snowpack is thinner, it is unsupportive and easy to trigger full-depth wet loose avalanches.  In areas with a thicker snowpack, it is often supportive, but we triggered several large collapses.  Pick your poison, or just don't bother right now; the ski quality is terrible: slow, sticky, and trapdoor.    

Wet loose avalanches were more stubborn on south facing terrain where the snowpack has matured through more melt-freeze cycles.  They remain easy to trigger in steep terrain on east facing aspects, and often gouge to the ground in shallower areas.  The thin 2/25 rain crust remains intact on some northerly slopes with wet snow above and moist snow below.  The 2/25 rain crust appears to be melting away on other northerly slopes now.