Travel was up to the PC Ridgeline via USA Bowl, figured that 5 inches of light density snow was a good recipe for dust on crust unless you found somewhere that didn't have wind damage from the wind event last week. Both Monitor Bowls looked fairly unappealing, mainly because I know how they looked before the 5 inches of light density. South Monitor had some shallow long running sluffs off the top. Decided to try our luck in NO Name Bowl, lower elevation and more protected from SE winds than most of the PC Ridgeline. Long running shallow sluffs were the main attraction on steeper slopes, the new snow was not bonding well with the old slick surfaces, but you needed a slope over 35 degrees to get anything running. The sluffs did not pack much of a punch but if you were in continuous steep terrain and one came from above it might knock you off your feet. The old surface in No Name was starting to break down but not quite to the extent that was optimal. The Monitors old surface was more than likely much firmer and true dust on bullet proof crust. The starting zone in No Name is thin, due to it avalanching to the ground twice this year and already, and it is rapidly faceting out to the ground, I would consider it a good candidate to avalanche again when we get a load on it.

Photos: Sluffing in South Monitor and No Name Bowl.