Divide cirque

Toured in divide cirque today. There was about 24” of fresh snow which made trail breaking very difficult. I did a quick pit and found a fist hard slab sandwiched between two layers of very low density snow. My guess is this layer formed when the cold front passed last night. I stuck to low angle terrain. In the basin, between pt 10,201 and 10,024 there was a very large avalanche that must have slid yesterday or last night. It looks like it propagated at least 1000’ wide and at the deepest the crown was easily 5 feet. Visibility was low so it was hard to tell, but it was definitely a big slide. Light snow in the AM became moderate in the afternoon, and it began accumulating rapidly.