Route today was up Mill D, pass Dog Lake, across the top of Big Water and Soldier Fork to the Nipple in Buttler Fork. Was wondering if Soldier fork had avalanched during the cycle but saw no evidence suggesting it had, but that doesn't mean it didn't, I have seen allot of slopes that didn't seem to slide during the storm but upon closer inspection an probing revealed they did. Crowns have been blown in and debris have been covered with new snow, on some slopes the only way to tell is to get on the slope and probe with a pole to find the depth of the snow pack which my be a risky undertaking on steep slopes like Soldier Fork. The snow on the nipple was about in the 4 ft range with rounding and compressed facets at the bottom but they had been compressed to only about 2 to 3 inches and did not seem reactive, the rest of the snow pack was right side, up denser at the bottom gradually getting less dense as you worked up through the pack, not much of a slab in that location. On our returns we went to the top of Reynolds Peak to have a look at the NE face, people were nibbling on both sides of it but not the center, of note skiing the skiers right side where most of the tracks were is not the safest practice, that side is steeper, more north facing, which means it has more facets in the basement and more prone to avalanche then the main face in my opinion. upon pole probing on the more eastern aspect of the main face we discovered that there was only one and a half to two feet of total snow pack which meant it must have avalanched sometime during the storm.

Thinking moderate on the hazard but that doesn't mean some slopes won't avalanche, still thinking dangerous slides can occur on high elevation, wind loaded step slopes with thin rocky areas as a likely trigger.