Today travel was up Mill D North to Dog Lake then over into Buttler Fork to ski the Nipple. Snow was still quite deep making trail breaking a bit of work but ski penetration while skiing was not as deep as yesterday, the snow from yesterday had settled out and was capped by 6" of light density snow. I chose this route because it allows you to view lots of avalanche terrain, and I wanted to see if things were active yesterday. Got a good look at quite a few avalanche paths: Soldier Fork, Wilson Chutes, Reynolds Peak, upper Butler Basin, Kessler, Argenta and Cardiff Fork and did not see any activity anywhere, I'm sure there were some new snow slides during the height of the storm, but I saw no evidence of any large avalanches. Dug a quick hole on the Nipple E-NE facing and once again saw a stable snow pack with no weak layers noted, and no facets at the ground. Base is looking good for this time of year in my opinion, we just have to keep it coming.

Photos: Wilson Chutes and Glade, Upper Buttler Basin, Argenta and Kessler, low clouds in the afternoon, and safe skiing in grassy lower angle terrain which seemed like a good call today to let things settle out.

Thinking Moderate but still wary of upper elevation N facing with facets at the bottom of the pack which have not already avalanched.