Avalanches: Fresh looking cornice fall on Scarp Ridge into Redwell Basin (NE aspect ATL). I haven’t looked at that path in about a week, but my guess is it fell in the past 3 days. It looks like the cornice initially gouged to the ground through weak and incohesive snow, but encountered more structure further downslope and pulled out a relatively narrow pocket of persistent slab, estimated 30 feet wide and a few feet deep. (SS-NC-R1-D2-O).  See photo.
Weather: Clear skies, cool temps, light to moderate NW winds at ridgetop. Small plumes on peaks this morning and no transport the rest of the day.
Snowpack: 1″ of new snow over variable surface of stout crusts to thin crusts to chalky wind drifts to near surface facets. On a windloaded SSE aspect above treeline, HS was 135 cm and there was 15-20 cm of frozen, pencil hard crusts at the surface (MFpc), over a faceting slab, with percolation columns reaching 30 cm deep. No signs of instability on various aspects/elevations except for some minor cracking and pizza box sized wind slabs in a windloaded gulley, 2-3″ deep on the dusty crust layer.

Very shallow pockets of windslab in a gulley.

Crack from a very large cornice pulling away from ridgeline.

Thick crusts and percolation columns on a SSE aspect above treeline.

2/24. Recent cornice fall/ persistent slab off of Scarp Ridge

2/24. Recent cornice fall/ persistent slab off of Scarp Ridge

Avalanches: Lots of D1 or smaller dry loose sluffs off steep cliffs in Rubys on S, E facing slopes, no wind transport
Weather:
Snowpack: 3″ on crust.

Avalanches:
Weather: Morning Started off overcast and snowing. Had a few periods of snow (S1) but no really accumulation. It got sunny mid day. noon day temp was – 4c. Light winds.
Snowpack: HS ranged from 80cm – 120 cm where I probed. Saw no signs of instability. Had a variety of snow conditions but did find some fresh pow.

Avalanches:
Weather: Scattered high clouds, Light to Mod winds with stronger gusts at ridge top keeping things cool.
Snowpack: BTL South had a double crust facet sandwich beneath 10cms of melted surface snow as of 1000. ATL South had 40cms of 4F wind loaded snow on a MF crust (that was mostly supportive) providing Resistant Planar failure character as of 1300. ENE 38* terrain had mostly all F and 4F snow with a variable height of snow from 150cm to 80cms based on previous avalanche activity. Compression Test were showing Easy to Mod results at the ground, but lacked propagation. Thin MF crusts observed on BTL SE aspects, and as of 1600 BTL ENE terrain had full depth faceted snowpack that was moist in the top 15cms and was capped with a thin, breakable MF crust. No instabilities seen or felt throughout the day.

Avalanches: One large glide avalanche above upper slate past Pittsburg on a near treeline, east facing slope. Looked like significant movement since thursdays storm with clean patch between thursdays dusty snow and slab. Failure looks imminent, and would consists of entire snowpack since xmas cycle when this slope likely last slid.
Weather: Periods of high clouds and warm temperatures above freezing to treeline. Light westerly breeze 10-15mph with a few gusts into the 20mph range.
Snowpack: Snow was generally quite consolidated and supportive with minimal ski penetration, even in afternoon around 1400 with full softening and melting of crusts on south and southwesterly facing slopes. Shadier and lower angled slopes still held creamier, colder graupel and windblown dusty patches. No signs of instability.

slick E-SE-S facing slopes on Schuykill Ridge int he Slate River

dusty snow

glide cracks/avalanche past pittsburg (NTL, E-facing)

wider view of glide avalanche