Cooke City

Rode to the wilderness boundary and skied a lap above Goose Lake. Dug in two places - all hard, dense, strong, deep snow

Rode above Goose Creek. Dug in two places along the very steep, north-facing slopes above the creek. Same. All hard, dense, strong, and deep snow. Facets from late January are buried about a meter deep and 1Finger+ hardness.

We were digging about 700 feet above the two persistent slab that were avalanches triggered on Feb 24th (about a week and a half ago). We didn't see any indication that that is a widespread problem. We didn't see any recent avalanches either. 

Digging down to the late-January facets was a pain in the a$%. It seems like when it's becoming a pain to dig down to a weak layer, it's usually not much of problem anymore.