Did you see if Jim Hell went?
I like that...Jim Hell. No, it will be as brushy as ever next year. Really, I just was looking at the mega avalanches as I believe they are historic. So, far just the steeper terrain for the most part has had these slides. But I am sure the operative word is so far. But, I'd guess Jim Hill (e) will get away with it this year.
I've flown a couple of other times in 2003 and 2005 after major spring cycles and on those years some pretty remarkable terrain avalanched. Often these mega slides initiate in relatively steep terrain, but because of the cohesiveness of the slab and significance of the weak layer, they often propagate onto quite low angle terrain. But on these other years which had similar weaknesses (though likely not as bad) and with much smaller slabs there were some pretty surprising avalanches.
Now, of course, there were also many slides of much smaller dimensions that released in late March this year and most valley floors show lumpy, wet debris. Often the crowns of these slides (some were undoubtedly sluffs) were not visible.
There were also about 40 or 50 fresh 1 to 2' slabs that released on 4/11 and 4/12 in considerable hazard to give a guage of the forecast for those days. Some of those slabs ran a long distance.
I'd also point out that the snowpack is humungous, especially at higher elevations. It wouldn't be surprising if some areas have snow depths to 400". I did see a couple of glide cracks that looked to be 25-30' or so.
