-a little more than a foot of new snow traveling up to Marion Lakes.
-traveling above the lakes we observed multiple loose dry/sluff snow Avalanches that sometimes propagated to a storm slab with crowns of about a foot, between 7000-8000 feet, D1-D1.5
- On the Alameda side of the ridge we had planned to ski, observed a D2, storm slab, crown 1 foot that traveled over 1000 vertical feet.
-we decided to travel in conservative terrain and not not commit to any big terrain features
-During our travel and skiing we found a very unstable layer between 6000-7000 feet that seemed to be moving on a layer of buried surface hoar. We observed large shooting cracks on short steep skin track sections and set off soft slab avalanches, D1, with crown of about 18 inches when skiing short steep drops
-in the basin new snow deposits ranged from one to 2 feet depending on aspect and wind exposure
- highest travel was to 7530 feet
Traveled up to Marion Lake, traveled ridge of 7798 and dipped a bit into alameda Lake drainage side
On the Alameda side of the ridge we had planned to ski, observed a D2, storm slab, crown 1 foot that traveled over 1000 vertical feet.
During our travel and skiing we found a very unstable layer between 6000-7000 feet that seemed to be moving on a layer of buried surface hoar. We observed large shooting cracks on short steep skin track sections and set off soft slab avalanches, D1, with crown of about 18 inches when skiing short steep drop
