Travel was up Flagstaff and east along the Emma Ridge. We stayed well left and west of the normal route today as we found spooky hollow slabs on all SE leaward aspects. My good ole patrollers feet kept sending me left away from punchy slabs on steep slopes. Once we gained the Emma Ridge it was hard to stay far enough away from the NE aspects not to trigger 1'-2' slabs into Days Fork. After triggering the second slide into Days east of Two Dogs we decided to call it quits due to very poor visibilty and increasing hazard. In these conditions its just not possible to ensure that there arent other parties below you. Best to pull the plug and retreat.

After choosing to descend the most gentle route down the subridge of Emma 1, I unintentinally triggered a D2 SS that nearly took me for a nasty ride. It was on a sublte terrain feature that was holding yesterday's storm snow instability and was now reloaded with a stiff slab. The slide travelled 1000' vertical stopping at the last transition above the summer road. It failed at a density change 2cm above yesterday's old snow surface.