February 12, 2026. 06:00 AM
No new snow, -7.0 deg, thin high overcast,, calm winds.
Surface hoar growing. 10 cm overlies recent surface hoar and sun crust. 30-40 cm recent storm snow overlies crust on south asp and previous treeline melt freeze, shallow dry pow in select sheltered terrain. Total 70 - 100 cm settled storm slab over the January 28 layer of surface hoar over various hardpack crusts.
Sunny day yesterday skiing peak to creek. A couple groups in Baldur Bowl to Funky, and finishing with a lap in Chicken Knob. And another group out in Chardonnay, Bermuda Triangle, and Avalung. We (well a very large snowboarder; he may work for Ryan Wedding) remotely triggered a size 2.0 persistent slab down 80 cm on the Jan 28 surface hoar interface, in the left side of Chicken Knob centre glade 1700 m.