Na avalanche cycle - White Pass

<p>Snow safety day today in White Pass. Weather was rugged with intermittent viz, moderate to strong winds from the north, snow at -1cm/hour, blowing snow intense, new snow 10-15cm. RH was a little higher and the new snow seemed to be sticking a little better than in previous wind events but most back in the Pacific Ocean by now. A natural avalanche cycle was just ending with multiple size 1.5-2.5 slab avalanches that had been triggered as Natural wind slabs on south aspects and stepped down to one of the various pwls in the shit sandwich that is our snowpack out there at the moment. The photo is of a healthy size 2.5 with a crown of 50-150cm that ran 300m. Nearly to the regular in-route to the Big Y. A test profile near the avalanche revealed numerous facet/surface hoar/crust combos in the upper 120cm of the snowpack. The midpack is a pencil hard slab and this all sits a top a layer of basal facets/depth hoar. Yum. At least 2 of the fresh avalanche I saw had stepped down to ground. This was all observed on a day when visibility was not great.</p>