Started the day late looking for the temps to warm a bit as it was -17 at my house in Peoa when I left. We got on the trail at Butler Fork around 11am. As we came to the west saddle did notice some sun crusting happening in pockets. Looking across to the high peaks can definitely tell the wind picked up considerably up high and there was a lot of snow moving around.

Noticed one natural on Raymond the happened within the time period between the two saddles of a point release that seem to be on a rockier shallow part and ran into the apron. On the Baker Saddle the wind was whipping consistently from the south. Hiking up the ridge line did notice older cracks that were made by pervious parties that day. As we made it up the shoulder the wind was stronger in some stretches.

As we got to our spot to take off, I triggered a decent wind slab on the north side of the ridge. It was a couple feet deep at the crown and only half of it ran down into the trees. Also noticed a bigger one on Gobblers north face that happened while on the ridge running from the top and almost full track but seems wind slab as well.

On our ski down my buddy went first and was right along some rocks and triggered two small pockets of wind load a few inches deep and a couple feet wide. He pulled out safely and let it go by. As he was skiing down he said there was another natural that was coming down at the same time this one a few shots over. All the naturals just ran into the apron and were slow moving soft wind slabs. The skiing on the other hand was quite pleasant.

Photos: Raymond Face from western saddle, Wind transport on ridge, looking across the street at wind, wind slab that got triggered while hiking, naturals that occurred while skiing the face.