Went up USA Bowl to take a look at Scott's and South Monitor. Scotts looked to have cornice drops but no real avalanche activity. On the other hand South Monitor looked like it had a pocket pull out most likely yesterday, right off the peak. The debris pile had been scoured off and it was evident that a slide had run in the last couple days. it looked to only run half track, most likely a cornice drop pulled out a soft slab during a period of intense wind loading. There looked to be a lot of wind loading in the main bowl with vertical wind drifts on most of the slope. We ended up skiing the south facing part of USA bowl which consisted of a spongy supportable base with 8 to 10 inches of dense creamy snow on top. But once you got out of wind affected terrain it was still upside down and inverted. The inversion was not as bad as what I was seeing in upper Cardiff Fork yesterday but there was about half as much snow on the PC Ridgeline as there was in Cardiff Fork. The ridge line was wind scoured and the old surface was exposed, no cracking or collapsing was experienced. Got a good look at a lot of terrain in Silver, Days and Cardiff and did not see one natural avalanche, also did not note any natural activity in the upper bowls of Cardiff yesterday except sluffs.

Photos: South Monitor, debris pile about 2\3 the way down the slope, suspect, looking vertical wind drifts in the skiers left side of the bowl, no need too ski suspect slopes low angle south facing was skiing well.

Considerable in high elevation wind loaded terrain