THAT was a wet ride.

We went into the northern Whitefish Range to look for recent avalanche activity. 

• Surfaces had a superficial refreeze during the morning hours and softened at around 11 AM at roughly 5000 feet. 
• Surfaces were unsupportable at low elevations at around 2 pm. 
• Observed rouhly 20 D1 loose wet avalanches and two D2 (large) loose wet avalanches from previous days.
• The most note worthy avalanche we saw one very large (D3) slab avalanche that failed on an east aspect. We assume this failed on the same day that another persistent slab avalanche failed in the Flathead Range (3/23). I am assuming this was hard slab. This slide ran full path and nearly propagated across the entire start zone. (see photos).

A sunny and dry day was cut short due to some snowmobile mechanical issues. Jenny was kind enough to gime me a 10 mile tow out which resulted in a much needed shower for myself... 

NOTE: bring an extra long tow strap to avoid getting roosted by your partner from a close distance in the event you need to be towed. Thankfully it was loose granular and not refrozen chunder.