Wanted to get out and have a look at No Name Bowl before the storm to see if it had the same set up as the part of South Monitor that I avalanched out yesterday. No Name is only about a quarter of a mile from S monitor as the crow flies, about 300ft lower in elevation, basically the same aspect, and its also steeper than S Monitor. Comparing the two was quite a lesson in spatial variability. S Monitor snow pack was made up of a few facet crust sandwiches, while the snow pack in No Name has no layering just a pile of bottomless facets, that is on the verge of being unsupportable. Decided to ski it for these reasons, no slab, no crust to connect the slope together, and basically no body or structure to the snow pack to hold it together just loose facets. I was able to get some fairly large facet sluffs running but they were inconsequential. Probably not the best place to go if we get any significant weight added to the pack.

Photos: loose facet sluffs, large grain facets making up most of No Names snow pack, and different view of yesterdays slide,