Fairy Lakes

This is from yesterday (202-01-01):

Low visibility, but we saw a few size 1 Dry Loose avalanches out of unskiable cliffy terrain.

Got one whumpf in a small willowy meadow near Ainger Lake. This occurred when one person took his skis off and sunk nearly to the ground. The rest of the group had already transitioned and stomped around in this spot without any reactivity.

In exposed lee terrain there was an unreactive windslab form the previous day (2024-12-31) buried by 5-10cm of new snow when we arrived. It snowed S-1 to S2 all day, winds were moderate gusting strong on ridges, but calm or light elsewhere.

Good powder skiing, no cracking or collapsing observed in the storm snow.