Quick report
Toured from the pine creek mine to the lookers-right (western-most) Tungstar bowl. We were able to ski from the car as well as ski back to the car. * All types of surface conditions, from wet heavy snow down low to primarily wind-affected breakable crust, sastrugi, and windboard. * Toured up to 12k, we encountered few signs of instability throughout, primarily due to significant wind affect over the last 48 hours * Blowing snow visible on ridges and into the middle of the tungstar bowl * Once above 11k and sheltered, no wind to be found, and we ascended a short protected couloir to the ridge at 12k, holding soft wintry snow. * Unreactive ~8" wind slab at the top of the protected couloir where we decide to ski back down * Ski quality was variable, but the middle 2k of descent in the middle of the bowl was firm, predictable windboard. Other than that, variable soft to punchy to 3d sastrugi to breakable crust was encountered. * No signs of instability
Avalanche
Semi-buried avalanche debris in the middle of the main Tungstar R bowl, likely from this week's storm.