Starting from Silver Star Sno-Park, heading up Silver Star Creek then clumping the N aspect of the left ridge line rather than staying in the creek valley

Quick report

Cracking

isolated

Stayed on the N aspect all day but got plenty of isolated exposure to micro ridges, gullies, and limited exposure to W and E aspects. There is almost no snow on anything that isn’t a N aspect. Lower elevations are quite bare but enough to ski fall line to the road, higher elevations are still pretty bare with some sun exposure and wind scraping on W and E aspects and on ridges. On N aspects under 4,000 feet, the snow was firm but you could still break through boot packing. From 4,000 to 5,000 feet, the snow started to soften in gullies and on N aspects, but ridges and other aspects were firm from wind scowering. Above 5,000 the snow was very light and dry and ridges had 1” to 2” of fresh snow above the crust, and gullies and protected areas had 6” to 12” of snow that was well settled to the crust below and only produced very small skiff/dry loose activity in steep terrain. The 4/1 snow landed as just a little bit of dust, nothing substantial.

Avalanche

Signs of wet loose D1 slides at 4,500’ on the E aspect of the western valley wall above Silver Star Creek