Snow pit on Poulsen Peak

Toured along the Poulsen Peak / Silver Peak ridge line today. Nearly no old snow on the southfacing side of the slope. As soon as we reached north facing terrain we started hearing whumpfing, as expected. Whumpfing continued in all north facing areas we toured. We stuck to low angle terrain and the snow quality was great, besides the low tide conditions and poor stability. We observed numerous shooting cracks 100-200ft in length, and some "spiderwebbing" of the recent storm snow. My ski cut did not trigger an avalanche, however it did cause a large whumpf and shooting cracks along the top of the entire test slope (pictured). The cracks were up to appx 3" in width.

While walking to the test pit location there was another large whumpf, and while walking away I created another even larger one. The second caused the shooting cracks shown.  

Once the sun came up, it warmed up significantly. The southfacing snow down to Olympic Valley was cooked, and I triggered some small rollerballs at 12:30pm.