The problem that's wicked nasty and just won't quite. It's there, it's buried and soon there might be enough snow to start skiing lines and snowmobiling areas that have just been too thin all season. We've gotta check ourselves before we wreck ourselves. The snowpack structure is piss poor, it's shallow, and the bed surface of any large avalanche is probably going to be near the ground. Let's remember that 25% of avalanche fatalities occur due to trauma. The struggle is real in this mountain range we call the La Sals. There is a short supply of terrain that ever has enough snow on it that's <30 degrees in steepness. Pretty flat and heavily tree'd in the middle and steep ATL terrain that we'd all like to get radical on, but nows not the time. There is a reason that the big lines here don't usually get skied until the spring time. Bonus stuff to remember as well. It doesn't take that radical slope above treeline to kill us. The small steep ones can do that too. North facing Exxons Folley produced a large persistent slab avalanche sometime yesterday during the storm. 11,200 feet 500 feet wide ran 600' vertical looked to be 2.5-3' deep. SS-N-R3-D2-O.

P.S. I think this problem is creeping around the compass to westerly aspects.

The new storm snow was widespread reactive today, and it wasn't just the new from yesterday and last night, but Friday's storm too. Both storms combined forces and was failing on the surface snow it fell on. Widespread cracking and propagation was observed. Small slab failures within the storm snow on small test slopes were easiley producing avalanches. Small informal hand sheer test on north aspects were cracking and failing before I could isolate the back of the column. NE aspects allowed me to fully isolate, but failed with a slight pull on the back of the column as seen in the video. Trigger a storm slab and it's bound to step down into deeper buried snow and create a larger avalanche on the north half of the compass. Perhaps west aspects are coming into play as well.