Any recent Longs condition updates (late Feb2015)???

[Alpine]

Perhaps - we (three of us) were on the summit from 1045-1145. There were two guys (Aaron and Paul I believe) who summited just after us and stayed after we left, and a single guy whose name I failed to get, who summited just as we left. Was that you?

[justiner]

I was up there today (3/11), but called it on the Keyhole route. Probably would have gone without incident, but my amateur attempt at diagnosing the snow pack didn't give me too much confidence. I have a video of a small pit I dug that I'm uploading right now. I apologize in advance for the foul language, but it would be interesting to get other people's take on it.

The Cables Route def. had evidence of recent activity - looks like a few people skied down it! Keyhole also had a few footsteps.

The snowpack is starting to shape up for sure. I didn't check any other aspects other than the... NW? aspect right after the Keyhole.

[justiner]

Here it is,sorry I'm a son of a sailor



I was concerned about the CAIC's report for this day,

It is possible for you to trigger large Persistent Slab avalanches on steep slopes facing northwest, north, northeast, and east. Slopes that did not avalanche during the last storm cycle are primed for a person to come along and tip the balance. [...] There are several persistent weak layers buried in the snowpack. Avalanches are breaking on these layers two to four, or more, feet deep and will be big enough to bury and kill a person. Evaluate the terrain and snowpack carefully before committing to consequential terrain.

[alpha]

Yep that was me! My name is James, btw.