Days Fork today. Skied West Bowl, Two Dogs slide path, basically NE early and then N later up to about 35-36 degrees. I saw this small sluffalanche in Two Dogs on the way up. Looks like it was pretty manageable and the guy skied out.
Took a look at Main Days, and I was able to set off this sluffalanche on the skin up in the shot I wanted. I headed somewhere else.
That was the story the whole day -- avoiding the slopes that had been cooked. I saw a bunch of these small sluff avalanches all day, and they were very manageable with good choices of aspect and timing. Saw a lot of guys hitting Cardiac today, and lots of aspects were taking tracks today. Today and yesterday were the first two days I've felt good about the snowpack in a loooonng time. The last two days are probably my best two powder days all year.
The wind and the clouds today really helped things out with the new snow, and kept things fresh a lot later than I would have suspected. A big surprise for me today was that west-facing aspects got annihilated by the wind and were really loaded up and nasty. My original plan for the day was Holy Toledo until I saw the west facing stuff in Days.