Recent Avalanches at Lionhead

We rode Denny Creek to the head of Targhee Creek. The primary objective was to search for avalanche activity from the last storm and avalanche warning. There were two deep avalanches on heavily wind-loaded slopes. Otherwise, avalanches were confined to the new and recently wind-drifted snow - there were four of these smaller avalanches. The snowpack at Lionhead handled the recent loading events better and there were fewer avalanches I expected.
 

We did not experience any signs of instability (cracking, collapsing), but the winter’s snowpack history and concerns about triggering large avalanches kept us off of steep slopes.