Toured up into wildcat basin and skied off of tongue mtn:
-Spider basin had no wind effect; there was about an inch of new snow at car with about a foot on top of the ridge
-found wind effect on swan divide, did ski cut prior to dropping in and they sluffed, so decided to ski down to wildcat lake. Triggered class 2 avalache with second skier. crown 50 ft about 1 foot deep that ran about 600 feet. Skier was able to ski out of it and let it pass.
-sought more conservative terrain for the rest of the day but found a lot of wind effect and slab formation wide spread throughout the bowl and on Tongue mtn
-freezing level stayed at about 5500 feet during our tour
-Significant wind depositing of new snow on north an east aspects of swan divide and tongue mtn
Up spider bowl from Strawberry lake trailhead, into wildcat lake and up and over Tongue Mtn.
triggered by second skier about 5 turns off the ridge
