Headed out today to try to see what was going on in White Pine, and across Little for the last couple days. Sadly didn't have great visibility, but saw that almost every south-facing aspect across from White Pine had gone either naturally, or with assistance during the storm. As for the snow surface, we had a pretty stout melt-freeze/rime crust with about 2-5cm of graupel on top of that. The crust was primarily supportable, but when skiing the new graupel was quickly running on that surface. It should make another interesting bed surface.

When we stuck our shovel blades in, we found our tests (ECTP23/ECTP21) on a density change 30cm down in the snowpack at the lower elevation snowpit. At 9,000 feet we were unable to get any results in our ECT, but go the same layer to fail when doing a shovel shear. It was consistently 30cm down at both 8,000 feet and 9,000 on both an E and N facing aspect. I would guess that that is just the transition between Monday's storm, or during the temperature increase Wednesday night.

While we were out walking, we were unable to get any signs of instability such as cracking, whomping and I was unable to get anything to move on cut banks and small test slopes. Where we were was generally protected from the winds, but did see a bit of transport happening as the clouds dropped on us, and the weather was changing.

For the upcoming week, I would be most concerned about winds continuing to load that midstorm density change - or the rime crust becoming a future bed surf from new snow instabilities.

Tree limb took down midstorm by the high winds

ECTP23 down 30 cm on density step - East Aspect - 8100 ft - 31 degree slope

Avalanche paths filled with debris on the south-facing terrain of Little Cottonwood.