We left the Bertha creek parking lot around 10:00am with the intention of finding some awesome north facing pow towards the end of the creek. We found a lot of somewhat cohesive hot pow over varying crusts. We dug a test pit below our intended line at the end of the valley, and ultimately didn’t  [ Read More ]

Toured up to treeline before we ran into a whiteout. Winds started to pick up coming out of the east at treeline. We dug a pit on a SW aspect and one on a N aspect and had no significant results in our stability tests. From what we saw the new snow from earlier this  [ Read More ]

We rode and skied around Seattle Ridge in Triangle Bowl, Warm up Bowl and up to the Headwall near Big Cheif. We saw multiple fresh avalanches around 50-200′ wide and a foot deep or so on average. Most of these were human-triggered from today, but we also saw a handful of natural avalanches from during  [ Read More ]

As we transitioned to ski the west face, a group of two people and two dogs headed further back the ridge to couloir 3. They were back to us pretty quickly and reported remotely triggering an avalanche on the south face. Our next run we checked it out, looks like it was a new snow  [ Read More ]

Standard uptrack to top of Hippie Bowl.  [ Read More ]