Avalanches:
Weather: Light Thursday snow with 4″ sunrise to sunset (0.28″ water), the light overnight snow with 5″ new so far and snowing lightly. Wind is calm and snowpack up to a new high of 91″ deep. No visibility and there has been none for days- it is like living with s bag over my head. A white one. I will give 24 hour totals after 7.
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Snowpack: See Attachment

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Avalanches: Had views of the lower runout of Coon Bowl and the starting zones of a couple Climax Chutes and saw no signs of recent activity.
Weather: Obscured skies, S-1 to S1. Light winds with light transport at NTL location.
Snowpack: HS on a flat, windsheltered slope NTL was 280cm. Snowpack is settling quickly, ski pen was about 20 cm and boot pen was about 60 cm. Low angle is skiing nice now.
Dug one pit on a windward, S aspect NTL. The January 1 crust was 85 cm above the ground and buried by a 155 cm, right-side-up slab from F down to P-. ECT produced several non-propagating fractures in mid-storm layers. A deep tap ECT crossed the column on 3rd hit, sudden planar, on the January 1 crust. The weak layer was 0.5 to 0.7 mm rounding facets. No signs of instability breaking trail along a low angle, gladed ridgeline.

S aspect NTL. 5 foot slab over facet/crust layer.

HS in windsheltered area NTL. ~280 cm

Avalanches: Havlick and Ruby Mining District resident both heard a very large Avalanche off Ruby at 0835. Saw one large crown above Elk Basin.
Weather: Continues to snow S1-2.
Snowpack: Snow: 18″ 1.8″ SWE since 1/10 at 1600 (40hrs). Storm stake was completely buried, dug it out, 41″ with storm water 6.6″ since Jan 8th. Total snow since 1/1 is 98″ with 11.3″ water.
Kebler has 2-3′ on the road, more in classic wind loaded areas. The road is starting to merge with the surrounding terrain. One single track had run the gauntlet early this AM. We only saw evidence of 2 of the 7 Sisters have avalanched. We called off operations upon Snow Safety Team arriving to the trailhead this AM. We need a day to muck out, let alone high avalanche danger. Over 100″ since Jan 1 and the roads are extremely soft and the slopes are the most loaded I’ve in my 20 years.

Avalanches: No idea of slide activity- cannot see a thing.
Weather: Light snow during the day Wed. with 5″ new, then strong wind late day and only light snow before wind lets up and snow increases some, dying down around 3 a.m. or so. The 24 hour totals are 12 1/2″ new snow and 0.86″ of water as the snowpack is at years deepest of 88″. Currently light SW wind and a very light snow and of course obscured clouds, which is all we have had for the past week or century (I get confused anymore). I hear it may clear by June though.
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Avalanches:
Weather:
Snowpack: Only 1″ during the day yesterday and then 6.5″ last night so total is 7.5″ with a light- for this storm- 0.44″ of water. We have reached 84″ on the ground- the most for this date on record (as was the past 2 days). Winds are calm and cloudy cover is overcast with currently no snow. Overnight temp. range 21 to 22.

Avalanches: Big slide in E-SE-S facing terrain Near treeline (Land of Lost) from big airblast in PM, obvious windloaded terrain. Failed 3-5ft deep, on NYE crust, and stepping down to ground in places on 2-3mm facets. HS-AE-R3-D2.5-O
Weather: Showery throughout day, period of heavier snow after lunch, then another lull at 1545. SW-W winds steady 30mph gusting 50-60mph range throughout day at ridgetop. Temps in teens and low 20s.
Snowpack: Snow was showery, 3″ accumulation throughout day, bringing storm water totals 4.8″ water since 1/8 and 7.5″ since 1/1/2017.
Winds re-drifting roads with 3-4ft between work cat passes

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Avalanches: Lots of natural soft slab avalanches below treeline, mostly D1.5 to D2 in size, various aspects. Limited vis of higher elevations. Observed one large powder cloud come off of NW aspect NTL of Whetstone, but couldn’t make out the crown. One debris pile off of Whetstone looked about D3, came down from alpine.
Weather:
Snowpack:

NE Gibson Ridge. D1.5

D2 NE Washington Gulch

D2.5 SE Whetstone

D1.5 NW Round Mtn

D2, N Cement Mtn

D1.5 S Cement Creek

D2. SW Cement Creek

D2 NE X Chutes

D1.5 NE Slate RIver

D2 NE aspect Slate River

D1.5 NE Slate River

D1.5 NE Slate River

D2. N Whetstone

D3 debris below obscured start zone

NE Whetstone D1.5

E Gibson Ridge. D2

E Gibson Ridge. D1.5

NE Whetstone D1.5

Avalanches: See photos. Drove by Peanut Lake Road around 2 pm and none of that had run. Traversed across East River paths and there were only a few crowns. Largest slide I saw was SS-N-R3-D2.5-O/G on a SW aspect NTL.
Weather: PM tour. S5 dendrites transitioned to S1 graupel to freezing rain. Overcast and warm temps. Moderate winds, strong gusts below treeline. Snow is so dense at this elevation that there wasn’t much transport.
Snowpack: About 20″ of top-heavy new snow. Spooky few signs of instability (no cracking or collapsing, with a few kicks and jumps above steep rollovers), but the big red flag today was the massive amount of heavy new snow. Trail breaking on skis was knee to thigh deep. Some moist/wet rollerballs on steep terrain. Didn’t go onto anything steep.

D1.5 Storm slab. Washington Gulch. NE aspect BTL.

D1 Storm slab. East River. NE aspect BTL

SE aspect BTL near East River. VIewed from a distance, but maybe a 3-5 ft crown?

D2 Soft slab, E aspect BTL above East River. ~18″ on facets, crown already mostly filled in.

SW aspect NTL. SS-N-R3-D2.5-O/G. Red Ridge.

D2. SE aspect NTL. Red Ridge

D2. SW aspect NTL. Red Ridge.

D1. NE aspect BTL, near the ski resort.

D1.5 Washington Gulch. NE aspect NTL