Avalanches: A few very small soft slabs that appeared to be about 4″ deep, failing within the storm snow, on a SSE near ridgeline. The crowns had started filling back in and estimations were tough. Several, small skier triggered sluffs in steep terrain.
Weather: Overcast sky. Snow showers were steady in the morning before tapering by 11am with a few short, heavy bursts in the afternoon. At ridgeline winds were westerly to northwesterly. Before noon they were light with moderate gusts, then increasing around 2:30 and becoming more steady at moderate speeds. Cold temps.
Snowpack: By 3pm, storm snow accumulations where in the 14-17″ of low density snow around 11,000ft.  Most of the accumulations came last night and early this morning.  Near ridgeline this snow was fairly evenly distributed between north, south and east, with little signs of recent loading.  A sparsely treed ridgeline in the distance  looked much more wind effected with snow being deposited on a SE-S aspect. Noticed a few isolated areas with some wind texture on the surface, but didn’t find signs of slabbiness in the new snow where we traveled. Column tests and hand pits generally crumbed away during isolation, and cracking was confined to a few inches on slopes up to 40 degrees.  Below treeline the old snow interface was generally very weak on north and east aspects. Valley winds were adding some texture to the snow surface in the late afternoon, increasing cohesion.  Found about 10″ of storm snow at 9,660 near splains Gulch at 4pm.

Near Treeline: About 30cm’s of new snow with wind drifts & whales very evident. Ski cuts, hand shots, and 9lb airblasts produced widespread shallow cracking (5-15cm’s deep). The storm was a little upside down, probably the same density, though winds probably picked up early morning causing just the top bit to feel slabby. Cracking from shots propagated wide over 100 feet in places, which was surprising because it was only in the top 5-15 cm’s. Some shots and ski cuts produced shallow narrow crowns 10-30’ wide but never really ran. A few ran 50-100 feet.

Below Treeline: No signs of instability or windslabs, ski pen mostly to the ground on JA Steep. I thought we would see some sluffing but no signs of instability. Only a little traffic today in JA Steep Right side not left, but good traffic the past 4-days down in there, all weak snow, no slabs.

Avalanches: No avalanches observed in the area toured, but observed some small point release avalanches across the valley on Whetstone.
Weather: Broken/ Scattered Clouds , No precipitation, Calm winds no evidence of blowing snow.
Snowpack: HS 50cm
Measured 15 cm of 0.5-1mm precipitation particles on top of 35cm of 1-3mm facets. Fist hard density throughout the snowpack. No evidence of wind slabs found in the area toured (glades south of coneys on anthracite mesa).
Ski Pen 40cm, Boot Pen 50cm. Snow was completely unsupportive off of the skin track.
Snow temperatures: Snow Surface -10C. 20cm down -3.5C. 40cm down -2C.

Avalanches: None
Weather: Light snow in the AM, slight clearing in the afternoon . Light to moderate winds from the NNE.
Snowpack: About 3 inches of new snow sitting on top of 4F 2mm facets. Snowpack 67 cm on north aspect near the weather station.

Snowpack: (7am observation) Gothic was missed again with just 1½” new snow and 0.10″ water. Steady wind, 5-12 with gusts to 24, gusting mostly in the past 4 hours. Most of the snow was before midnight. There is 15½” of snowpack. Little to report.

Weather: Overcast with Light snow, winds were Moderate SSW. Storm slow to start, at 3 pm it got going with S2. 1″ new.
Snowpack: East: Variable snowpack with lots of facets. Anywhere from 4 to 50 cms. Lots of rocks, grass and wind textured surface.

West: Variable snowpack with average HS 30-45cm’s, mostly weak faceted snowpack. Hard wind slab felt (10cm’s) but not reactive with ski cuts or shots.

Avalanches: None
Weather: Clear, sunny, warm, no wind.
Snowpack: HS 25-40cm. Little bit of wind crust near ridge line and on a few rollers. Otherwise ski pen to ground and faceted snowpack

Avalanches: 3 natural wind slabs, all very small in size (~6″ deep) that likely failed last night on E and SE aspects above treeline.  SS-N-R1-D1-I
Weather: Clear skies, light to moderate westerly winds. Light snow transport with small plumes off of peaks. Mild temps.
Snowpack: Recent storm snow was wind affected above treeline, drifts up to 6″ deep with shooting cracks.

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