We traveled into the backcountry in Canyon Creek to hopefully enjoy the new snow above the rain line:
-Great morning with smooth cream and had only a little storm sluff off small steep pitches
-Air Temperatures remained below freezing in area traveled (5600-6600 feet) until about 1 pm
-Heading back in bounds as conditions deterioted in early afternoon (Snow was more dense and roller balls were prevelant)
-Found two small storm slab D1 avalanches on the road between fiberglass hill and resort boundary (5,700 ft approx) which had occured sometime late morning or early afternoon
We were not present for the avalanches so put cause unknown but from what I could tell, one was triggered by a skier (you could see a set of tracks enter at the top of the road cut) and the other by a big chunk of dense snow/ice that had tumbled off a tree near the top of the road cut.
The failure layer was about 5 inches above the rain crust
Avalanche 1: soft slab depth 1 foot, width 50 ft, vertical 30 ft
Avalanche 2: soft slab depth 1 foot, width 30 ft, vertical 20 ft
