Skinned up the ridge and descended down showboat in a party of 2.  [ Read More ]

Skied down sideline keeping off steeper pitches. After that went to Ravens Wing and performed a little ski cut on the first steeper pitch and got some movement.  [ Read More ]

Heard minor collapsing on the ascent. Saw wind transfer.  [ Read More ]

Did a lunch Troy lap. It was snowing from the parking lot. There were ~2 inches of new snow as of noon. The new snow/old snow interface was mostly supportive crust below ~2600′, above which the older snow was softer. I also observed shooting cracks in wind-transported fresh snow as I started skiing off the  [ Read More ]

Skinned up to the nest via the normal uptrack. About 5” of new storm snow on the upper mountain.  [ Read More ]

Checked out Wedding Bowl area during the break in the weather today. Observed rapid warming at low elevations during the mid day sun, and noted some recent, small loose snow avalanches in steep terrain at mid and upper elevations. We dug a quick snowpit at 2500′ on a north facing slope in wedding bowl. There  [ Read More ]

Just the other side of ski area boundary. East Side Closed. Vertigo and Drifter open.  [ Read More ]

Snow is moist around Eaglecrest. Mitigation efforts out east bowl produced wet loose avalanches.  [ Read More ]

Toured up Troy through the trees. Snow transitioned from heavier wet snow down low to drier-but-not-totally-dry slab-infested wind blown pow at higher elevations. We dug a pit at about 2800 feet on a northwest facing aspect just below one of the last tree islands before poking into the open alpine. Pit revealed 30 to 35cm  [ Read More ]

Poked around the terrain above twin culverts. Soggy down low, snowing above ~ 1500ft. Obvious signs of instability. Stayed off consequential slopes. Still skied to the truck. 😉  [ Read More ]