Right-side-up in Lost Johnny

Today we rode into the Lost Johnny drainage.  

• We found a right side up snowpack above the Holiday Crust.  Depth to the Holiday crust was approx. 5-6 feet at 6200 feet.
• On any slope steeper than 30 degrees we were seeing cracking around our skis, failing at the interface between yesterdays slightly denser snow and last night/today's cold and light snow(approx 6-8 inches)
• We opted to stay away from steep terrain above any gully, cliff or thick trees.  Terrain such as this was sloughing at all elevations and all aspects.  We saw sloughs that ran several hundred feet and entrained quite a bit of snow.  
• We looked for areas that had been wind affected, however, the winds seem to have been pretty tame in our location.  
• Coverage is improving with the brush being buried even in the lower elevations.
• Snowfall rates for most of the day were close to 1 inch/hour.