Cooke City north

We rode out to the north side of Miller Mtn. then over to Scotch Bonnet, Goose Crk., and back to town via Round Lake rd. We observed human triggered and natural small wind slabs, and cracking in fresh drifts as we rode around. Skies were partly cloudy. Wind was mostly calm to light. Increased to moderate at times and was transporting snow across ridgelines which is what triggered the small natural wind slabs.

South faces had rollerballs and a few small point releases around steep rocks. There was a .5-1" sun crust formed by afternoon after direct sun left south and southeast aspects. Last night's snowfall was 1-3" and there was evidence a decent bit of wind had blown.

We triggered one small wind slab. 6" deep x 10 feet wide near a ridgeline at 10,200'. There were two small, D1, natural wind slabs that broke this afternoon on the south facing 10,200' ridgeline of Scotch Bonnet, 6" deep 20-30 feet wide. There was a crown on the north side of Miller in the cliffs that could have been recent, but light was too flat to confirm debris or timing. We saw cracking in fresh drifts as we rode around.