Its the moment we've all been waiting for. I started my tour at 0700 this morning while the snow was still falling at a high rate. There was about a foot of new snow on the ground and no evidence of windloading in sheltered terrain and light windloading in exposed terrain. There was a break in the snow from 0800-1030, then the snow picked up to a high precip rate quickly. Temps seemed to be dropping slowly throughout the day. I got some small cracks and one small collapse on the skinner. I skied some low angle terrain with 1'-2' of mid-density snow. I was surprised at how well set up the snow felt; there were no signs of instability. Coming down around 1200, the snow was still coming down quite steady.

The snowpack is in a bad spot right now: rapid loading with a huge facet base. Powder fever is upon us and the first "symptom" is poor decision making. Stay safe our there.