Wind Loading

There was lots of obvious wind erosion and deposits on most of the slopes near the ridges and even down off the ridges from the very strong south winds yesterday. But they were all non reactive from my experience. We took 7 runs on 7 different northerly facing slopes on the City Creek side of the ridge and I did not find any of the pre-existing wind slabs to crack or react. I think the new snow from last night fell on a warm surface and it bonded quite well even though there was very blustery wind until the cold front passed in the middle of the night. The warm surfaces and warm snow at the beginning of the blizzard last night seem to have bonded quite well. I probed with my pole many times and did some quick hand pits but I could not find any buried faceted weak layers that looked like they might be a problem.