Steamboat & Flat Tops
AvalancheDan Edmiston ยท Jan 14, 2017
Weather
Partly cloudy early morning with clouds beginning to break by late morning, quite warm with many steep south facing slopes beginning to have small wet slides by 11am.
Snowpack
Few hasty pits didn't show much reactivity in storm snow. Skied cold snow on WSW facing terrain, kept steepness right at 30 degrees more or less. Skins starting to glob up on return skin track. Expect a pretty good crust to form on southerly aspects. Air temps at Dry Lake of 38*F at 11am may encourage a thin crust on other aspects too
Avalanche
Few small point releases on steep south faces as the day warmed up, no other avalanches observed