Quick report
Sunny skies to start the tour and fully snowing by the end. Once we turned the corner and were on the Northside of Targhee, there were tons of Small D1 dry loose slides that looked to have been triggered in the last 24-48 hours. Other than some places with 'missing cornices', and some isolated dry loose slides, we did not hear or feel any collapsing or recent signs of instability.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
Snowpack
Rightside up snowpack until you hit that Dec 8 drought layer, with 150 cm+ above that on both pits. The persistent weak layer did appear to be breaking down a bit but there are still many healing facets below.
Avalanche
There were many dry loose slides off the north boundary line of Fred's. None seems to run particularly far, entrain too much additional snow, and stopped once the slope angle was ~30 degrees. It does appear that some of our historically larger cornices may have failed mid storm because there were some noticeably absent cornices.