More calm, clear weather on tap. Winds will be light from the SW, and high temps will be in the mid 20's. More of the same for the foreseeable future.

It's now been three days since we picked up 18" of snow at a whopping 3.7" of Snow Water Equivalent. This was an incredible base building event that was capped off with 6" of medium density powder. The dense snow has made for supportable travel, and fast skiing and riding, even on low angle terrain. That's the good news. The bad news is, it fell on pre-existing, weak, faceted snow setting us up for a long term, persistent weak layer problem. In our travels yesterday we continued to experience collapsing of the snowpack (see my observation) as did Charlie Ramser's party (see their observation). The strong sun yesterday definitely had an effect on the snow surface on exposed slopes and I expect most southerly facing terrain will have a crust on it today. It's also still quite low tide. The dense snow helps keep you up above some of the rocks, logs, and stumps, but there's still plenty of sharks in the water.

Here's a video of conditions on January 27:

And here's some great drone footage shot by Chris Benson to give you a birds eye view of how things are looking up there:

Gold Basin SNOTEL site (10,000')