Headed in to Boom Lake to check things out after the recent snow. Temperature in the morning was minus 16 and minus 12 when back at the vehicle. Tree line and below: 15cm of storm snow now sits on the old surfaces. Despite moderate or even strong winds aloft I stuck to terrain that had no wind affect and so had no cracking, whumpfing or other signs of instability in the line skied. Skied conservative terrain less than 30 degrees. Excellent ski quality.

Saw a lot of spindrift avalanches in extreme terrain during the day. Also saw numerous loose, dry avalanches from during the storm in steep easterly aspect terrain mostly to size 1. One particular chute produced what looked to be a size 2. Didn’t see any slab avalanches in the terrain observed. Cornices off Boom Peak seemed mature and I didn’t tempt fate to ski any steep lines threatened by newly enhanced cornices. Heard what sounded like several avalanches before noon (booming…) but saw no physical evidence??

Some recent ski tracks in the first two slide paths on the south end of Bell Peak. Not nearly as much skiing here as at Chickadee. The ridge crest above these lines has been stripped by the wind but the start zones looked cross loaded by the same wind.

Decided not to follow the summer trail in and mostly followed the creek. Took the well beaten summer trail out. The creek is a more scenic route but the skin track may now have been followed by some snowshoers and may not be as pleasant as it could be. Only saw a half dozen people all day, none of whom were AT skiing.