Returned to the Monitors to see what the new snow was doing. Quite allot of wind loading and wind damage noted in both Monitors, west winds from yesterday had created wind slabs just down off the ridge line, but they did feel fairly stiff and not collapsing much, mind you we did not get out onto any obvious wind slabs that were sitting on old faceted snow. Stuck to the more easterly aspects for skiing because the new snow was sitting on a old melt freeze crust instead of weak facets found on the more northerly terrain. Photos, wind damage in South Monitor on the more northerly aspect, Wind damage and snow erosion on the ridge line, more easterly facing line in South Monitor with only a melt freeze crust underlying the new snow.

Seems right now there is only a small amount of terrain that is suspect for avalanching, which of course would be the high north facing terrain with old faceted snow underlying it, hopefully it will continue to snow and not allow the whole pack to facet out, kind of a critical time right now in my book. Photo, wind drifts on the ridge above Scotts Bowl.

Forecaster comments:

I was with Mark today and agree with his assessment. We didn't mess around with any north facing slopes but did note these cracks on a north facing slope which occurred during the wind loading Saturday night. The basal facets most likely collapsed and produced these cracks.