Dirty diapers

Our tour into the Flathead Range was highlighted by impressive wet avalanche carnage 

• The southerly-facing side of Tunnel Creek was a mess of overlapping wet slabs and wet loose avalanches, ranging from D2 to D4 in size. These appeared to mostly run Thursday and Wednesday. There were only a few paths that hadn’t already flushed to the valley. Northeast aspects at high elevations shed a number of “moist loose” D2 avalanches yesterday and triggered one D2 soft slab. Looking across the Middle Fork at GNP was like looking at a pile of dirty diapers. Lots of slides to the ground.
• Avalanche activity began today around 11:00 am and continued until we left early afternoon.   We saw mostly just small wet loose slides in our basin. 
• Limited other views in our travels but the big slides that appeared to run today: D3 wet slab to the ground on a mid elevation southwest aspect across the Middle Fork. A second D3.5 wet loose/ wet slab(?) off of the southwest bowl of Mt. Stanton, started near the summit, viewed from afar.
• We stuck to our plan to start early and traveled exclusively on due north aspects without overhead hazards feeding in from other aspects. We intentionally triggered a D1.5 wet loose on a relatively small NE facing slope at high elevations, and experienced wet collapses on low angle SW aspects at high elevations.