Summer trail up. Winds were starting to shape the snow.  [ Read More ]

Center punch on the up. High overcast. No wind. 7cm fresh snow. Suppoertive crust creamy turns.  [ Read More ]

Skinned up the road to high east. Hopes of right side up powder we’re dampened by persistent clouds depositing moisture in the snow surface. With luck the incoming dry weather will suck the moisture out rather than freezing it into a crust. Still fun. Skis in and off around the willows flats.  [ Read More ]

We skinned up the access road to the ridge above Black Bear. On the way down, saw a full depth snow slide in the middle of Fruit Bowl. About 50′ wide at the bottom with a fingernail shape. Overcast sky, fresh moist snow on top of windblown supportive crust.  [ Read More ]

While on fruit bowl a crack propagated around 20ft across, 6inch crown. A decent amount slid down.  [ Read More ]

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 ]