January 7

Alta guard station, Holy Toledo, Cardiac ridge, room of doom, Mineral fork.

Elevations, slope angles and aspects

7200-10600', angles over 35°, all aspects.

Snow conditions

Variable snow from boilerplate up in the wind zone to soft and creamy in sheltered and shady.

Small grained surface hoar

small-hoars

was widespread

broekn-hoars

on all aspects anat all elevations. Melting on sun exposed.

Faceting continues in the upper layers with continued surface sluffing on the steep and shady.

Weather

Clear and sunny, moderate temperatures and light wind.

Avalanche activity

Glide cracks

ridge-crack

zoomed

zoom-crack

From the bottom

crack-tracks

lookers left

rumpled

lookers right

frown

Glide cracks return to Cardiac ridge. Took awhile for wet mid December conditions to move through the layering to the ground.

Mineral Fork

mineral-fork

Large avalanche in upper Mineral fork from December 29th.

Including room of doom, santiago, barrieto, and beyond. Debris pile to the lower flats.

Evaluation

Mostl ystable snow with surface sluffing on the steeps.

Weather guessers have a little one scheduled.

Hoping for wind to blow away some of the hoars but, it ain't gonna do shit about the faceting.

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