Above treeline today we were able to isolate a few shallow wind slabs and got them to fail with light to moderate force. We planned our entire day around not skiing areas that had loaded, or were actively loading, and it was pretty easy to avoid this problem. The short time we were ATL we did not note any loading snow. The winds just weren't strong enough where we were at the time. After reviewing the winds speeds from the Pre-Laurel Peak wind station for the day they were barely gusting strong enough to actively load slopes. Wind speeds of 17-25 mph account for 80% of leeward deposition. Winds could have been loading more snow up on the high peaks this morning. As long range visibility improved throughout the day I never noticed any blowing plumes of snow off the high ridges.

Low probability high consequence set up. Stick to deep areas and away from rocks in steep terrain facing NW-N-E near treeline and above, or avoid the problem all together and stick to slopes less than 30 degrees in steepness and not connected to steeper slopes above, or ski south facing runs. We made sure and had a discussion about steering clear of the rocks at the top of Tele Gold today. No need to poke the dragon, so we skied a little less vert.