Republic Creek

I skiied into the upper basin up Republic Creek today. Spectacular. Had the trail to myself. Broke trail through about a foot of new snow. It was cold, overcast and snow squalls. The sun barely came through but it affected the snow in the open areas.I noticed a few things. Evidence of significant sloughing on the back peaks(Republic Peak). Probably during the big accumulation? There looked to be some cross loading too, though it wasn’t windy today. Then, on the west facing Woody Ridge there were a couple of recent(yesterday?) wet slides that came off the summit rock bands. They didn’t travel far or step down but definitely widened over the short run they took. After seeing all that I skiied the east trees on Republic Mountain which was really good.