April 26

Starting at Brighton, I found 3-4" of medium density snow over several inches of damp, set up, rain? crust.

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There were numerous collapses felt on the ascent to Wolverine.

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Ski cutting on the descent initiated a small slide on a break over which over ran clingon tracks.

Several more small slides were triggered on a descent of the main north chute, Pioneer peak.

The collapsing and slides were the result of a poor bond of old snow surface with dense damp snow from yesterday's first wave + daytime heating.

All slides were running on the damp rain? crust with no step down to old snow surface.

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Fog and low clouds kept the most recent snow dry into late afternoon.

I'd expect good skiing to linger for a day, with some isolated loose snow instability at upper elevations and shallow wet activity from warming.

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