Yesterday in our travels we observed plenty of drifting snow. We found even more wind drifts today. After skiing Goldminer's we made our way into Talking Mountain Cirque. We wanted to ski looker's left of El Pinche, where we assumed there would be less drifted snow. However there was a large party skiing in there so we went looker's right of El Pinche and quickly found ourselves on top of a big fat wind slab. Probing down with a ski pole in some places there would be a firm crust below the slab, and in other places we felt weak sugar snow as deep as our pole would go. We went up a little ways, but as soon as the slope got steeper we became uncomfortable and bailed. Nice snow in the low aprons over there, but most of Talking Mountain Cirque is loaded up right now. We headed back to the cabin tree zone for safer skiing. On our exit we talked to a large party that triggered a wind slab avalanche near Lone Pine. Pictures below and details will be in the avalanche ob. Wind drifted snow will still be a problem tomorrow NTL and ATL NW through E. These drifts can be more than a foot deep in places.