Portal Creek Meadows Winds

We rode portal creek meadows as an exploratory mission as neither Kyle Marvinney nor myself had ventured there much. New snow from the previous storm cycle had settled to about 4 inches, but it was hard to tell due to widespread wind effect. Judging from the snow, temps up there have mostly stayed below freezing during this previous warm cycle (after Monday/Tuesday storm), though there is fairly supportable crust below the storm layer. winds were blowing consistently 10mph up high gusting to and estimated 25mph. We observed one small avalanche in the riding area that occurred before the recent storm cycle and seemed characteristic of other similarly sized avalanches we have been observing throughout the season.