No Name Bowl12/13/2023 Todays' travel was to No Name Bowl on the PC Ridgeline. The wind was blasting from the E most of last night and all day today. I figured NoName might still be good seeing that it sits at mid- elevation and is somewhat protected from the E winds by the topography. All the other slopes at higher elevations were completely windjacked or wind loaded depending on aspect. On the walk up I encountered every snow type- sun-crust, wind crust, ice, wet snow, and wind slab. When I rolled off the knob into NoName I was pleasantly surprised with the texture of the snow. I knew most of the slope had avalanched during last weeks cycle and stuck to a line that stayed within the boundary’s of the slide. I’m pretty cautious when I'm traveling solo. So I first stepped down into the bowl and probed the snow. I found about a foot and a half of settled powder on dirt. Then I made a few turns and checked again. Same deal, so I skied the line a few times. I stayed away from the part of the bowl that did not slide. By the time I was leaving the wind was doing its thing to the upper portions of the bowl and probably will not be as user friendly tomorrow. I would think the high E winds probably loaded W facing slopes in the upper alpine and might begin to overload some slopes that didn’t go last week.
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