Wind slab and storm slab avalanches on Silver Peak.

We toured into Silver Peak today to have a look at wind slabs and storm slabs. New snow amounts in the area had reached 1.5 feet at midday. Ongoing snowfall rates were 1.5-2 inches per hour for most of the morning. We intentionally triggered 2 storm slab avalanches and 1 wind slab avalanche, all size D1 to D1.5 as the slopes we choose to work with were small. We did not test larger slopes with thicker slabs (no need to tickle that tiger). All snowpack failures that we saw were within the storm snow, at least a couple inches above the old snow surface. Aside from cautiously working with a few steeper test slopes, we stuck to sub 30 degree slopes for all travel both uphill and down.