Jakes South

Skied the south side of Jakes today. Started skinning at 8. Ski crampons were helpful, but not quite mandatory on the steeper sections of the ascent. Things started to soften and get warm around 9:15. Descended Emerald Bay Chute at 11:30. A few parties had already descended today prior to us. The south facing gut of the chute skied was skied well with very minimal skier triggered loose wet activity, but wasn't corn yet. Prior to us some groups had skied the more east facing side of the chute, skiers right, and started some moderate sized loose wet sloughs. These were big enough to push someone around or knock them over, but not enough to bury someone, and ran 200-300 vertical feet. We did encounter some nice corn snow below 6,800 feet in that area on S and SE aspects. By noon even this was starting to get quite soft with pole basket penetration 1-2 inches.