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Quick note of ogden the up track. It is very very bad currently. Low coverage and to many rocks underneath, spent the good portion of the day wallowing and falling in facet holes. Would wait for another 50cm. Any travel on the south side of the ridge was horid. un supportive wet sticky snow and large pinwheels coming down. Some pertinent info: Picture above of an avalanche on the south side of Mt ogden. Not sure when it would have realesed guessing withing the last 48hrs. Size 1 wind slab avalanche which released another slab lower down of likely sympathetic nature. Ran for 3-400m and debris pilled up the gully below. I do not know which climbs are below this but I do believe there is ice climbing below this if anyone has been headed out to these climbs. The wind and sun have seriously had there way with the area. Deposits in the alpine at the top of the paths ranging from ground to massive lumps that impede view. Reminiscent of sand dunes trying to look down the slope. The upper east slide path had big convexities and lots of thin spots below and between. had us question the the ability to trigger one of these sizeable slabs. The winds seems to have cross loaded from the south up the mountain. The cornices are big for early December. They have started to weaken and are sagging over the head wall and creating moats on the ridge line. The sun directly smacks these things pretty hard all day. we kept to a more conservative chute down the shoulder that held a north east aspect with less overhead potential and consistent depth to avoid tempting any dragons lurking. incredible powder snow from the shoulder to lower down in the paths, we traversed under the big paths to ski the final track and run out feature of the bigger path to avoid the brush to the lake. Lake was slushy at 3pm in the middle sections felt solid on either side. People were seen skiing up across the lake on the ogden bowl slopes. I think this would be the place to be on ogden right now if I went back.