Northern Gallatin

From obs: "Skier triggered a 1.5' slide to his right while making a turn near a cliff band. The slide did not intersect with the skier's path. We did a ECT before choosing our line and were not able to get the soft slab, or anything else to propagate, but clearly, the slab is ready to go as it slid on rocks. We both skied out without incident."

From obs: "Skier Triggered a 1.5' slide to his right while making a turn near a cliff band. The slide did not intersect with the skier's path. We did a ECT before choosing our line and were not able to get the soft slab, or anything else to propagate, but clearly, the slab is ready to go as it slid on rocks. We both skied out without incident."

A nice day going up Avalanche Gulch to Responsible. No signs of instability including a pretty good look up into the Maid of the Mist area. Good stability/structure in the gullies. Snow surfaces got wet on steep rocky solar aspects today.

Skier Triggered a 1.5' slide to his right while making a turn near a cliff band. The slide did not intersect with the skiers path. We did a ECT before choosing our line and were not able to get the soft slab, or anything else to propagate, but clearly the slab is ready to go as it slid on rocks. We both skied out without incident.

I toured up Flanders today, and found a weak, thin snowpack. A pit on an east aspect at 9400’ was 98 cm deep, and failed at ECTP15 on a layer of loose, sugary facets sitting between crusts at 38 cm and 53 cm. The rest of the snowpack seemed relatively solid, but I imagine this layer will take a long while to gain strength.
I did not observe any recent natural activity from the top of Flanders, save for one small slide that started right at a ridgeline, likely from the strong, warm sun we had today. I did not experience any collapsing or cracking, although thinner snow near trees or rocks was weak and unsupportable.

Up on the shoulder of Blackmore today. HS 125cm plus or minus, with 15-20cm HST. Poor structure is widespread. No cracking/collapsing/signs of avalanche activity on basal layers. The steep, wind loaded terrain on lookers R of the N Face (NE aspect) slid naturally some time towards the end of the snow event on the interface, around 30 cm estimated depth, some crowns up to 40m across. Nothing ran more than 100m. SS-N-D1R2-I. On the east face, nothing more than size 1 Dry Loose. This round of snow didn't seem to tip the scales around the general Blackmore area but I'm not really trusting larger pieces of terrain in the Hyalite region for the foreseeable future.