Bacon Rind

After a long drive south on which we were joined by a few enthusiastic Big Sky Skiers we found an empty pull of and lots of new snow at Bacon Rind. 

We didn't dig any pits and kept things well below 30degrees. Here are a few high points:

• Several whumphs, but all down in the first 500' vert from the car 
• No Cracking or collapsing at higher elevations and no vis to see any activity
• Didn't see obvious evidence that persistent weak layers are hair-trigger, but I am glad that with the rate and duration of loading that there was a warning today. There was more snow at Bacon Rind than I expected. 
• Snowing S1-S2 through the day, ~3" through the day 
• Occasional Moderate winds, but mostly light wind
• About 20" settled on top of the sun crust formed last Monday and Tuesday, a new snow avalanche would be no joke at this point
• High on Wind-loaded and Considerable elsewhere seems appropriate
• Unrelated, we saw well over a dozen vehicles off the road including 3 semis with trailers. The roads weren't that bad, I guess we are out of practice

Have a good forecast in the morning. 

DZ