Day off skiing in the Southern Whitefish Range. We primarily stuck to mid-elevation, northeast terrain. Settled storm snow felt ever-so-slightly upside down. We could not produce, nor did we see any avalanche activity from today or last night. We skied over some debris from yesterday and spotted one small older slab avalanche on a road cut.
- No shooting cracks, collapsing, and test slopes were unreactive except for some minor sluffing with surface snow.
- A test pit showed both non-propagating and propagating results roughly 20cms down from the surface.
- The height of snow ranged from 180 to 220 cms. We found the 12/31 freezing rain crust buried underneath 90 to 100 cms. Unreactive in test pits.
With the information we were given, we felt comfortable skiing one at a time in avalanche terrain with shorter pitches.
