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 ]

Took the standard skin track up the quarry. Heavy, wet snow at lower elevations, widespread wind and storm slab noted at upper elevations. Our initial plan was to ski the bowl, but decided to ski the rib rider’s right of the bowl instead due to the snowpack structure at the upper elevations (more details below).  [ Read More ]

Standard skin track up to saddle below Troy, then back up from collection meadow to Slow Boat.  [ Read More ]

Dropped into sunny side from the top of Ben Stewart. Skied the gully that’s skiers right in the sunny side bowl. There were naturally released wind slabs all over sunny side. Would avoid southerly, exposed aspects until the recently formed wind slabs stabilize.  [ Read More ]

Toured around on Fish Creek Knob, Fred Meyer Bowl, Stewart – various aspects and elevations. NE winds. Significant, active wind transport above ~2800.  [ Read More ]

Skinned up Dan Moller and skied 1 afternoon lap. No recent avalanches or red flags observed. Dug a pit at 2300′ on a N aspect and did not observe any propagation. Skiing was great with boot-top low density powder.  [ Read More ]

Went into Wedding Bowl w high hopes of finding snow like Saturday. Observed significant winds and wind transport. In Wedding Bowl we triggered a small 6” deep wind slab near the ridge on the windward slope. On the ridge of Fish Creek Knob we found wind loaded pockets that released easily while skinning. Below the  [ Read More ]

Dug a pit at the top of Fred Meyer Bowl. There was a few centimeters of light powder on a 30cm soft layer from the last storm sitting on a much firmer layer that had larger ice crystals. The deeper layer had obviously been through some freeze/thaw cycles and was pretty consolidated to at least  [ Read More ]

Toured over Troy heading south to Jumbo. Dug a pit on a NE face at 2200 ft. ECTN 27 at 60 cm. CT 13.  [ Read More ]

Hiked up to the saddle of hogs planning on checking out Box Car but after my pit I decided to just enjoy the snow at a fast clip avoiding any cliffs through the middle. ECT was dug in at roughly 2500′ on a NE aspect similar to what I originally wanted to ski. Glad I  [ Read More ]