Today was another beautiful day. I found cold dry snow at upper elevations ( Above 8500 Ft) all morning than in the afternoon anything below 8500 ft on all aspects had become wet. There was a decent amount of wind loading today even at mid elevations. The Mid elevation wind slabs were the most reactive with two collapses and some cracking. But once above 8200 ft the wind slabs were not reactive. This could be due to the fact that upper elevation wind slabs have had time to settle and lower wind slabs were just finally starting to form today.

The snowpack is a mixed bag. I found in protected areas semi reactive facets under the rain crust from march 6th. These facets are in the 2mm size currently. We still just don't have a great slab sitting on them yet. Maybe with a little more snow and a little more wind they will become more reactive. I also did not find them at the upper elevation windy areas on Ben Lomond either because they blew away or got demolished day in and day out by the wind up there.

Photo 1 Hand Shear

Photo 2 Facets

Photo 3 Wind Loading on saddle in the usual spot.

Photo 4 West aspects are getting slim also.

Photo 5 Cool wind affect. Stripping

Photo 6 Very Very sunny and warm

P.S. Who ever skied the Chili Peak Slab Shoot today nice work. Well done, fall line, very pretty turns, on blank canvas.