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Small wind slab in hyalite at the start to champaign slot, 7600’, WNW, ~8” crown. Photo: S Bonucci 

Small wind slab in hyalite at the start to champaign slot, 7600’, WNW, ~8” crown

While touring up a low-angle ridge in the northern Lionhead, I experienced several large collapses, notably one that triggered a cornice fall from 50’ away. Another remote collapse caused about 500’ of an E facing bowl to propagate, but not slide. ~9200’ E-SE

One fresh larger slide (R2/D2) at about 9,400' on a NE facing slope. It appeared to be natural (remote?), failed at the ground and was about 200' wide and ran for 200' the crown was 2-3' deep. Photo: A Newman

Toured up the ramp at around 4 yesterday, snow was still falling heavily. Counted 4 or 5 natural storm slabs breaking mostly within the new snow. A skier before us triggered a slide in the chutes on a ski cut. I struggled to find a clean interface where the storm slabs were breaking on a few hand pits, mostly just a lot of fresh snow. 

There was a natural avalanche on the landslide face above quake lake. The avalanche failed on a weak layers near the ground and broke several hundred feet wide. 

We toured into Carrot Basin and Sage Creek this morning. The storm ended and skies were broken by 1000. The spx is about 1M deep and the surface conditions are soft and excellent in most areas with wind effect along the ridges. At about 130 we moved from carrot to sage creek and notcied three small and one large avalanche along cabin creek divide that were not present earlier in the day. Most looked remote and were isolated pockets (R1/D1). As we rounded the corner into sage there was one fresh larger slide (R2/D2) at about 9,400' on a NE facing slope. It appeared to be natural (remote?), failed at the ground and was about 200' wide and ran for 200' the crown was 2-3' deep.