I was curious to see what was under the new snow on the northwest to north to northeast mid-elevation aspects today. There was significant spatial variability in both aspect and elevation. In the areas we traveled, we only found a wind slab on a few exposed ridge areas which become more sensitive as the day progressed due to additional snowfall and increasing winds. We dug several hasty pits and did not observe any hard slabs above or below our weak layers.

On our third lap we triggered the small slide below adjacent to our skin track. This small mid-elevation section of ridge was wind loading much more than higher elevations and it was in this area that we had numerous cracks as well as being able to easily trigger small slides from a cornice or rollover.