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My friend and I toured in Beehive this morning.  Was calm early but the winds picked up late morning and were whipping around pretty good as we left mid-afternoon.   Dug a quick pit at ~9300 ft along the upper east side of the west ridge of Beehive Basin (lower end in the timber before it gets exposed in the upper basin).  Snowpack was ~120cm deep, approximately half of that being from the last storm series.  We got an ECTP11 that was a smooth propagation which failed ~65 cm up from the ground at the interface of the new storm snow.  This reinforced the instability we expected to find and we stuck to a few laps of the smaller / gentler east facing meadows.  Skiing was great though!  With the wind today I’m sure the instability will only get worse before it gets better…

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Fraizer Basin, 8500', North facing, 35-37 degree slope, 1pm

Photo: T Guarino

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Fraizer Basin, 8500', North facing, 35-37 degree slope, 1pm

30' wide, 6'' deep, ran 150', In the love chutes, Fraizer Basin 

1Finger wind slab sitting on a 4Finger hardness break.  Triggered from 30' above the crown, ran slowly.  A majority of the slab rode back up on the surface 50' below the crown.  Bed surface felt like small grained facets under skis, didn't look too close. Small and localized cracks and collapses were felt and seen throughout the day in the same location. 

Middle Basin ECT

Middle Basin Snowpit

Tyler's snowpit 

I dug a pit on the SE shoulder of divide at around 9600’ and got a ECTP 14 on the persistent weak created during the long dry spell layer buried from this weeks storms.  Photo: Anonymous