I got out early this morning and did a little kicking and digging. There is quite a bit of new heavy snow up high. With all the wind there were large drifts and shallow pockets making riding unpredictable. I was unsuccessful at setting any slides off, however; I was not in terrain that offered safe ski cuts. I used my shovel to dig out a some cornices. I chose terrain that slid mid-slope at a roll over last Saturday. A couple of the blocks maintained form and ran down the whole mountain. There was only minor sluffing and no slab fractures. As seen in the pics, the cornices are large and the trees rimed. I was not able to get safely on a north slope so I dug on the south side. HS 165 with a solid snowpack. My stability test yielded moderate results with an ECTN 12 RP Q3 failure at the new snow old snow interface.



