We traveled into the Northern Whitefish Range today. The objective was to do some training and see what we could find after the dust settled from the previous storm.
- Strong evidence of wind loading onto north, northeast and east aspects. Noticed many small cornices beginning to form on ridgelines.
- Several D1.5 and D2's in upper elevation terrain. All avalanches we noted were on north to east aspects. No avalanches were observed on southerly facing terrain.
- At 5500' measured 90 cm total snowpack height with 35cm of new snow.
Due to the lack of coverage and recent avalanche activity, we did not veer far from the road on our sleds. There is good meadow riding to be had to knock off the cobwebs.
Poor visibility made it difficult to gather detailed information.
This was the one candidate to be a possible persistent slab avalanche. It appeared to be deeper than the rest and have some rock in the upper part of the bed surface (lookers left in the photo with numerous crowns).
This avalanche appeared to be the widest that we observed. Photo with the single crown line.
