Tent ridge observations part 2 full comments

<p> Went for a hike around tent ridge yesterday did, hs 10cm at the car was 2 degrees at 11am u could ski up but not down from this point if u had em. its a hike until the opening in the back bowl, snow depths get to around 30-50cm here and quite supportive in the morning, by early afternoon the snow at ridge tops at 2500 on sunny aspect  was sloppy, any more snow and this hike may be abit more involved the steep west slopes of the ridge behind tent have alot of snow and could be skied. U could ski some north facing terrain in the basin of the ridge. Aspect depending its all seems very wind affected and mix of firm and breakable crusts wind slabs and facets. People have already been down somewhere but there tracks are not easy to see any more. I walked upto the edge of the east facing slope into the basin and jumped on a windslab at ridge top that was 20cm thick and when I broke through it propagated but was a very resistant result. Very airy facets beneath this slab, this may have been the reason the north slope slid. At the end of the cirquit going clockwise when u start going down u walk beside a North facing slope that's separate from the east faces u see on the hike into the basin. This slope looked very skiable but thin and looked like it had just slid, I'm not sure how big the avy was it slid sometime this week. the debris pile was 100cm-120cm deep piled up in the bench in the first roll below the bowl and ran up for about 50m. Not much terrain trap so the snow depth wasn't just a good find in a pocket. Was similar along the slope as I probed along. On the way down blocks of slab stuck up against trees were 20-50cm thick. The bed surface was 5cm on pure ice or super slick snowcrust on the ground and the entire slope looked covered in it, I believe this would have been a wind loading event over a very slick bed surface but may be something to think about after the new snow falls if headed up that way for turns. Reminder we did not ski this. Sorry for two reports this goes with my other one but the comments didn't post. </p>

Avalanche Conditions

Rapid temperature rise to near zero degrees or wet surface snow.

Slab avalanches today or yesterday.