Quick report
During a long tour across the headwaters of Sweeney Creek, we got a good look at the natural avalanche cycle from last week. Surface snow on all aspects is pretty consolidated at this point, with lots of hard slabs and wind scoured snow on shaded aspects and some corn developing on solars. If shredding impressive ridges of sastrugi is your thing, now is the time to go get it. We did not dig a pit. We felt comfortable nibbling around the edges of avalanche terrain, but avoided wind loaded starting zones as a general way of staking the odds on the side of safety. No cracking or collapsing observed.
Avalanche
Good visibility allowed us to observe many large avalanches from the natural cycle last week. Many were large and ran full or near to full track. Primary activity was on steep wind loaded terrain. Many crowns were wide, but as an unquantified observation, crowns were not as wide as observations further North in the advisory area, and activity was pretty isolated to very wind loaded terrain near and above treeline. Subsequent wind loading obscured a lot of evidence of avalanche activity. Some wet/loose activity too but that was minor in comparison to natural slab avalanche activity.