Recent Avalanches

Wind Loading

Cracking

Poor Snowpack Structure

This past southerly pulse (3/4-3/6) windloaded North through East faceing slopes above 9500'. Slopes with a shallow snowpack were and still are highly suspect with stiff overlaying slabs. We skied a lot of West during the storm with stripped/crossloaded uppers and found a stout thermal crust beneath up to and above 11k on slopes of a variety of steepness. Surface snow during the storm showed a bit of a density inversion with the southerly component of the storm seeming to have a little bit of colder snow underneath it (above the crust) and then some lighter snow on top of it all. We had some cracking in wind touched areas on 3/7 on Kletting Peak but no propagation. Heavy skier trigger sluffing was observed on slopes 38 degrees or more. 3/8 we skied on the West side on Moffit Peak and observed two prior natural avalanches (likely from 3/5 or 3/6): one on Double Hill (Hardslab D2 NE 10500) and one on the southernmost peak of the Moffit massif (Hardslab/cornice fall D2 NE 10500) My general impression is that there's actually quite a bit of snow on the ground above 9500. in protected areas: Mill Creek ~180-200cm average @10500. Hayden Fork ~250cm @10800 Riding conditions in general were 5 star.