La Sals- Gold Basin11/2/2021 I was planning on leaving Moab this morning but it snowed a few inches up high so I decided to give it another go. The snow line seemed to be hovering around 9500ft. The new snow was fairly light density but managed to hide the rocks quite well. I went up to Talking Mountain Cirque but the cloud line was hiding the upper peaks. I decided to ski a N facing, shady, sheltered run at 11,000ft. Unlike the wind exposed higher elevation terrain, the crust facet sandwich was not evidentb ut the whole snow pack had faceted out and was lose and rotten. I would suspect areas like this will be the first to avalanche once a load is placed on them. The sun popped out in the afternoon and the new snow got damp immediately on all aspects except high N. It’s even more work to get in there than it was a couple days ago due to melting out on the lower elevations.
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