-What was supposed to be a longer day in the backcountry turned into a quick mission up to middle elevations 5,500 feet
-Snow was deep and light this morning with up to 10 inches of low density snow
-Travel was not ideal with large entraining sluffs breaking on our uptrack on a 4 inch thick faceted crust
-We started to notice whompfing as we collapsed faceted crust layers with out body weight at our high point of 5,500 feet on a NW facing slope angled around 30 degrees
-We saw a myraid of avalnche activity from the past 24 hours at middle to upper elvations from dry point releases (D1-D1.5) to dry slab avalanches (D1.5-D2)
-Touring in a T shirt it was only a matter of time before the wet loose avalanche activity would begin (while we saw no roller ball activity or wet slab activity our ski bases had added a fresh coat of gloppy snow by the time we returned to the car at 1pm)
Many dry snow avalanches had run in the past 24 hours on a variety of aspects between middle and upper elevations. Larger dry snow avalanches had crowns estimated 50 +yards across 10 inches deep R1-2.
