Deep epic blower powder today but stick to well treed areas and/or ridge lines.
The faceted melt crust is still there and still weak, now under over a metre of storm snow. Today a huge class 5 slide on the south side of Goryu buried a Japanese skier who sadly didn’t make it.
The instability may linger for a while until the facets are crushed by a lot of snow on top.
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