It's up and over for us today

Spent the day climbing on Mount Brown with fantastic weather - clear skies once above the valley fog around 4000-4500' (photo) and very little wind.

• Saw multiple wet loose slides on mid-upper elevation sunny aspects such as the south basin of Mt Brown (photo) and on Mt. Cannon. Thinking these ran yesterday afternoon.
• The snow surface in the sun at 8500' was wet and there were even tiny seeps of liquid water on the rocks. 
• Otherwise stuck to the shady aspects and noted a weakening snowpack that was faceting all around with widespread surface hoar development.
• Spent much of the day cutting through the various generations of old wind slabs and these were completely unreactive with no cracking.
• Encountered several-days (week?) old avalanche debris at 4500' (D2.5) on NW aspect. This was the result of a slab that failed in an upper basin around 6700'. The crown was mostly filled back in, but appeared to be at least a foot thick (photo) and maybe 200-300 feet wide.
• Also noted multiple several-days old, dry loose snow and slab avalanches (D1-D2) on N-NE aspects including debris down to 4200' below the Little Matterhorn near the head of Avalanche Lake. Also observed what appeared to be old crowns on the north face of Mt. Edwards.