Log Cabin

Riding quality was:

OK

Snow conditions were:

• Crusty
• Hard
• Powder
• Wind affected

We rode:

• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Stormy
• Windy

Avalanche conditions

• Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

We went up the cutline route at Log Cabin today, pretty sure the prominent north face had already gone—and it had. A size 3 avalanche started in the alpine and ran full path, snapping mature trees and leaving big piles of debris in the upper gully runout.

We had several whumphs in open areas near upper treeline, likely on the buried facet layer above the December drought crust, and remotely triggered a small wind slab about 15 m away on a small roll. Riding in sheltered trees was decent, but anything that saw wind was hard and grabby. Things still feel reactive, so we stayed below treeline, spread out through avalanche paths, and kept time in potentially exposed terrain to a minimum.