Recent Avalanches in Ward Canyon

- Went into ward canyon this AM for a obs tour and to sniff out some soft turns. Overall I found very consistant snow surface conditions in this zone. A supportable crust with an inch of new snow, and depending on aspect it was either cold dust on crust or buttery melting snow on crust. There was some rime ice on exposed ridge line features as well. But overall riding conditons were pleasant this am, and oberserved limited to no signs of instablity. Was out of field by 1100am. 

- A noteable and now well advertised avalanche cycle occured sometime during the last 24 hours... In ward canyon alone (from what I could see) I counted 14 seperate avalanches. These avalanches ranged from loose wet, wet slab, wind slab, and cornice failure. The 2 most notable were a cornice failure on the ridgeline north of twin peaks which ran 1000ft in length and was around 150ft wide. This cornice entrained wet snow and produced quite the pile of wet debris. I estimate the debris were 10 feet deep or more. Also a noteworthy natural wind slab that was approx. 2-3 ft deep and 150 ft wide near the top of Little AK that ran for 750ft.