Todays route was up USA Bowl, over to have a look at Scott's peak, then on to No Name Bowl. The main story of the day was the wind loading from the strong SE winds, we are not really used to this kind of wind loading from the E-SE and it was loading slopes in unusual ways. Scotts Peak was getting heavily cross loaded way down on the slope, with cornices in strange places, No Name Bowl was also being cross loaded heavily mid-slope by the strong SE wind. No collapsing but the slabbed up snow was cracking and upside down. W-NW slopes where also getting heavily wind load which made the skiing good on the low angle but untrustworthy on steeper slopes.

Photos: Wind cross loading Scott's peak mid-slope, braving the ground blizzard on the way to No Name Bowl, and finally a little wind skin but low angle skied nice, hope everyone has a Merry Christmas

Hazard for tomorrow is a hard call, with continued winds and predicted snow amounts I would think it would be verging on high. The tricky thing is avalanche activity may be in places we don't usually expect it, some slopes you may not be able to trigger until your well down the slope, some slopes will be wind scoured and other will be wind loaded. I personally will probably keep my slope angles on the not so steep side of the scale until we get a handle on what's really happening. Wind whipped low angle skied fine today. If we don't get the wind and snow predicted thinking considerable for tomorrow.