Great snow conditions in the Gold Hill area with around two feet of new snow which has made for some great riding, filling in old tracks and keeping the sleds off the ground. With the avalanche hazard high, keeping to safe low angle slopes and playing in the meadows is great fun right now.

The already weak snow pack was just slammed with new snow, high winds and water weight putting more stress on the weak sugary snow near the bottom of the snow pack. Even though in my stability tests where it took several hard hits from my shoulder to get an isolated column of snow to crack across it, this still tells me that avalanches are very possible once you collapse the weak snow.

A couple photos of some natural avalanches that happened during the storm cycle. The first picture is of east facing Double Hill and it looks like a decent size crown. The second picture is on the east side of Moffit Peak.