Wanted to get into the upper Bowls of Cardiff before the next storm to see what had avalanched and what hadn't. Hadn't seen any obs from there and discovered that no one had really been in the upper bowls except the heli. Travel was up from the Alta Guard, over the top of Cardiff Peak and entry through the Eye Brow. Noted three large avalanches in my travels today, Cardiac Ridge, Cardiac Bowl,and the east face of Kessler just south of the Catchers Mit, I put these on the avalanche list because I think its important to keep track of repeaters this year. The snow in the upper basin of Cardiff was dense and still inverted and punchy while breaking trail, but it was dense enough to stay on top of while skiing. We did experience localized cracking of the dense snow due to the density inversion about a foot down. The wind was moving quite a bit snow on the ridge line, of note was quite a lot of cross-loading on NE facing LSB. The wind was also increasing the denseness of the slab in the drainage bottom and creating wind slabs and crusts on the surface. I think the warm temperatures from the last two days has done allot to settle out the snow but I'm still not too keen on the dense slab sitting on lighter density snow. Stayed off of all steep slopes today, no need to rush in and try to punch steep lines right now, winters just begun.

Photos: Wet activity from yesterday off Toledo peak, skier triggered sluffs in Cardiff Bowl, Crowns on Superior, wind starting to blast in the afternoon. and one of the big slide off east facing Kessler which crossed the Cardiff road

With more wind and snow in the forecast I would have to stick to considerable.