Mt Smuts Commonwealth Creek Area

Valley bottom and treeline saw light winds westerly. Looking up to the alpine though winds were clearly extreme.

New snow in protected areas was deep but did not witness any instabilities on aspects we skinned and skied. Skied a protected south facing gully next to the slide path off the Commonwealth Creek side of Mount Smuts. At treeline evidence of storm slab but unreactive in the gully we skied which had terrain >30 degrees. Most of the alpine around was bare or had significant wind transport or affect. Slide path next to the gully was wind loaded and affected and had old debris up high.

Size 0.5- 1 loose dry off the col between the Pigs Tail and Mount Birdwood Extreme winds up in the alpine Ran about 150m 1pm Evidence of 2 size 1-1.5 avalanches off the south side of Mount Smuts in the last 24 hours. High amount of wind affect and transport in the alpine. Both ran ~200m at the top of the slide path. Old debris further down the slide path also.