Travel today was up USA bowl which was frozen on our ascent at around 10am, dropped into Radar Love Bowl E facing, skied down the drainage to the ridge to No Name Bowl, did a run on NE facing No Name, then exited out SW facing USA. Radar Love Bowl was faceted loose in the top of the run but when you descended over the steep roll midway down it turns more E and was damp to the point that I didn't like the feel of the snow too much and pinned it out of there. No Name was also interesting, we decided to ski the hang fire between the two avalanches that occurred there last week, the skier triggered slide that went to the ground on Tuesday had melted out and now only mud and dirt remain in the starting zone, no snow to facet for a repeat performance, the other larger slide had a shallow amount of snow on the bed surface that has already faceted out to the ground again, highly likely to slide if it gets another load. There was also wet activity on the E-SE facing part of the bowl. SW facing USA Bowl had pseudo supportable corn on our exit around 2:00pm. Oh yeah one other thing, I would have sold my first born child for a block of skin wax today.

Photos: wet activity in No Name, close up of last weeks avalanche bed surface in No Name, skiing the hang fire between the two slides, wouldn't have skied it with out a exit strategy, the intact snow structure still sucks, slab on basal facets, and finally some excess weight to keep you fit.

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