Avalanches:
Weather: Mostly sunny, light wind, mid 30’s for a high.
Snowpack: No signs of instability. Could feel the old layer with 4- 8 cm of new on top. Skiing was supportive and fast

Avalanches: some sluffing in ruby range, no significant activity, NE bowl of Owen may have slid mid storm, snow surface looked a bit roughed up, but covered by recent snow.
Weather: Winds less than 10mph most of day, but increasing last several hours ahead of next storm. Temperatures rose from single digits early to 18º on ridge and 29º at study plot. Trace snow accumulation. Low level stratus clouds built and dissipated most the day with increasing clouds last hour with flurries.
Snowpack: Cold powder this morning quickly transitioned to heavy moist snow in upper 12” of new snow. Easterly and southerly snow in lower 2/3rds of terrain most cooked. Cool west breeze minimized moistening in west facing terrain and UUWW for tomorrow, but still got moist. Snow safety routes this morning verified rapid stabilization of snowpack overnight, minimal windslabs and storm slabs all but disappeared. Early prefrontal red dust layer quite visible where cat has cut roads, cornices, etc. Simple hand shears continued to show failure 4cm above red dust in storm snow.

Avalanches:
Weather: Mostly sunny, light to moderate winds from the WNW, cool temps NTL & ATL
Snowpack: 15 cms HST (at TH), and about 50 cms HST (at summit). Cold, dry, and uncohesive in the morning, becoming moist and slabbing up by 1300. Resting on a soft, dusty MF crust. Easily skier triggered by early afternoon as wet loose slides once the HST became moist on steep terrain features via ski cuts, and running on the old MF crust. Surfaces ATL staying cold where exposed to wind on the surface.

Avalanches: Small Loose wet slide where observed running on the old dust MF crust as well as a small skier triggered loose Storm slab E aspect. See Photo.
Weather: Mostly clear with low clouds in the valley in the AM, light to moderate winds from the WNW, cool temps NTL & ATL.
Snowpack: The snow was quick to warm up today on S-SE aspects becoming moist and thick before 11:00am. Boot pen 10cm and HS 225cm at 11,000′. Lots of settlement BTL.

Storm-Slab

Avalanches:
Weather:
Snowpack: Snow totals ended up being far less in the Friend’s Hut zone than other areas. Our storm total was only 3” and transport was minimal. Cornices, drifting and loading upon observation was minimal and controlled by the team moving about on both sides, above and below Star Pass. Teams split up and moved into the basin systematically in radio contact to slice and dice any suspect slope. Most cuts we did were no more than a few inches of new snow on hard surfaces. Obs are decidedly thin new snow, some snow collection in low lying gullies and persistent slabs are stubborn and triggering unlikely.

Avalanches: No recent avalanches observed from Slate River Road, with good views of Emmons and Schuylkill Ridge
Weather: Scattered clouds, mild temps, calm winds, pulse of S1 near sunset.
Snowpack: 25-30 cm of settled storm snow over a dust layer, well bonded to old interface, with no fractures in stability tests and no signs of instability on steep rollovers. Minimal signs of windloading in this area. Snow surface had moistened earlier in the day and was refreezing into a breakable crust on pitches with a ENE tilt.
One profile on a due north slope BTL showed the March 6 facet layer had gained significant strength since my profile in the same area last week. Hard ECTN results and Q2 fractures in compression tests on this layer, Near treeline on a NE aspect, the same layer was above a very thin melt-freeze crust, and below 80cm of 1F slab. We got repeatable hard ECTP Q1 results on this layer (see video).

Avalanches: New snow in steep and protected N facing trees was sluffing fast and heavy with every turn, leaving debris piles 3-5′ deep on flat benches. No propagation.
Weather: Snow of varying intensity and gusty winds out of the NW
Snowpack:

Avalanches: skier triggered r2d1 in rock chute, looks like it was triggered by a ski cut on the first convexity, new snow fracturing like a slab and running full width and about half of the length of the chute. We triggered any r1d1 pockets that were left on anything 35 degrees or steeper. Also remote triggered r1.5d1 in baby bowl while exiting rock. Blowing snow made it difficult to evaluate depth and location of crown, assuming the same as in rock.
Multiple naturals look to have run mid storm in the trees and openings to skiers left of seven bowl.
Weather: blowing and snowing, wind moving big trees and transporting snow everywhere, including onto the skin track in between laps
Snowpack: 8-12 inches new snow