Bruin

No signs of instability as far as cracking or collapsing, except crowns on North Aspects from mid storm natural avalanches. In the afternoon the sun came out in temps, warmed up, and the surface snow started to produce wet loose avalanches or port releases in roller balls and pinwheels.

The only other instability we saw, other than the mid storm natural avalanches on North aspects were solar induced afternoon, pinwheels, roller balls, and point releases on WSW aspects. We snowmobile cut many test slopes on many aspects without any results, even when side-hilling above other tracks on steep test slopes we couldn’t even get sluffing to run. We did, however, agree that below the uppermost peaks, it looks like previous wind loading had formed visible pillows of snow and we noticed some punchy snow, but did not observe any cracking while carving through wind pillows on ridges. Powder snow on solar aspects in the afternoon had seen its first sun and was getting noticeably heavy while riding and building up on snowmobiles. Crusts likely formed in places overnight.