West Central Montana Avalanche Center

Loud collapses any time I stepped off the established trail. Heavy motorized use in the area with a few small crowns on road cuts from snowmobile side hilling failing on layer of concern.

13cm new snow overnight.

Buried surface hoar is present in all non-timbered areas, even in areas where I would have thought wind destroyed it. Found also on SW aspects today. No slab above it yet but will be future issue!

Light rime event AM, skies cleared to broken around 1200 in the area. Active faceting throughout snowpack. Suspect high spatial variability due to early season vegetation and ground cover.