January 13, 2008, Alpental slackcountry

A beautiful sunny day in the Alpental bc. It looked like yesterday there was a natural avalanche cycle with small crowns all over the place, but nothing that looked too substantial. Things seemed to be cemented in place today. Fog rolled in later on but still the first blue bird day I've had all season.

Does this mean that Alpental finally opened something other than the Elevator Gate (please say yes!)?

Looked great!  Was the traverse open yet, by the look of your "fresh" powder shot it appears that way?  Be good if the whole lot was finally open.

I can only look at it right now which is depressing...

Does this mean that Alpental finally opened something other than the Elevator Gate (please say yes!)?

All gates were closed on Sunday. In case you think the BC is safe, these were taken Sunday in Stokes Bowl.

I saw a lot of big naturals on a lot of aspects on Sunday.

Lower gates were open on Sunday. Upper was closed but people were traversing out anyway. Did those slides run on Sunday? I didn't see anything release on Sunday and even the crowns from Saturday looked fairly isolated (i.e. not propagating out across a given slope).