The skies cleared briefly this afternoon allowing a look at Crown Bowl. Looks like a little natural wind slab popped, likely triggered from the sloughs starting above (photo).
Also of note, skied to Black Lk on Tuesday. Interestingly that near-surface crust was less pronounced on east-facing and disappeared below ~6500'. Dug a pit about 50 yards below the sub-ridge east of the notch. Massive amount of wind loading w/ total HS almost 230-235cm. ECTN w/ light force up the thin upper crust, but couldn't get the Dec 22 layers to fail w/ hard force, Did a little shovel shear on the column and the whole block jumped out w/ lots of energy and full propagation. Yikes (photo).
Appeared to be triggered by sluffs from above.
