Deep

Snowmobiled into the Northern Whitefish and observed fresh storm instabilities as well as larger avalanche activity from the last storm.

• 10” -12” of new snow with evidence of fairly mellow ridgetop winds sometime earlier today. No signs of wind transport in our travels and snowfall came to a halt this morning.
• We noted several avalanches, both soft slabs and sluffs, that ran naturally this morning. These were all harmless in size (D1).
• Of the handful of avalanche paths that we crossed under, a couple of them had large (D2) debris piles from the last storm. One was a hard slab that involved older snow, the other soft debris. We also observed a handful of similar soft debris piles in the gulley aprons of the Western Apgar Range.

• Very deep snow kept us confined to low angle slopes at lower elevations. We felt comfortable riding in runouts because loading was not ongoing during the day.