Warming conditions Relay Peak

Relay Peak had a broad array of conditions today.     Wind effect, sun crust, hot pow and cold snow. From the summit minimal avalanche activity was visible.  Snowmobiles had cut a few N aspects in the 9,600' zone below relay and high marked several E aspects below the towers with no obvious signs of instability.  The human powered crowd had tested the N and NE aspects of Incline Lake Peak with no signs of instabilities. 

I couldn't see any obvious avalanche activity from Relay. This view shed provides a pretty significant vantage and nothing conclusive stood out. There was a strange wind ledge or old crown near second peak in Bronco but we didn't tour deeper in that direction to confirm. It was good to see the PWL warning had been heeded and there were no tracks in Bronco. There was also what may have been a large crown on an unnamed N facing timbered ridge near the west fork of gray creek looking towards Martis, but lighting, prescribed fire smoke and no binoculars made it tough to tell.   

We were aiming for aspects less likely to harbor the PWL.  I underestimated the lack of inversion on Relay and some of the solar aspects had developed crusts or were on there way to developing them. But we were still able to hunt out cold snow on SW trending aspects. Boot pen in shaded areas was above the knee in these locations and rode great.