Recent Avalanches

Todays problem was sluffing. There were some fairly large natural sluffs that ran for a couple hundred vertical feet that came off the steeper terrain on far skiers left of Days Draw. Some of them were definitely large enough to knock you down. We also triggered some large and long running sluffs when we skied the steeper terrain just down off the top of Days Draw, with some of these skier triggered sluffs running a couple hundred vertical. The sluffs seemed to involve only the new 12" of snow and did not seem to step down into the older snow. Other than sluffs, we saw no signs of instability. Pictures try to show the size of the sluffs, but you get the idea. Today's conditions seemed manageable, so I went with Moderate hazard, but if it snows much more, tomorrow's hazard will increase.