Travelled up to the penguin/california creek ridgeline to approximately 4100′. Ok travel in the helmocks then lots of proud alders to whack, then walking on a firm slippery (sometimes more hard windboard sometimes more icy) crust w approximately 2-4″ of facets on top. Small surface hoar on the surface most places we travelled. Quite a  [ Read More ]

Toured a short way up towards Goat before turning around. The combination of thin coverage and breakable crust seemed like a knee injury waiting to happen. Surface crust ranged from a few mm to 2 cm thick, and the snow below the crust was dry and just barely starting to facet. We saw some isolated  [ Read More ]

Natural avalanche in the California Creek drainage. Observed from Alyeska Resort.  [ Read More ]

Notch to 2300′  [ Read More ]

Remote triggered a wind slab on a rollover on the Magpie apron. Pretty steady down valley wind all day, more protection the higher up we got. Slide occurred about 3500’ elevation on a southwest aspect.  [ Read More ]