Sunny with a buffet of conditions

Riding quality was:

OK

Snow conditions were:

• Crusty
• Hard
• Heavy
• Powder
• Wet
• Wind affected

We rode:

• Cut blocks
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees
• Sunny slopes

We stayed away from:

• Convex slopes

The day was:

• Sunny
• Warm
• Windy

Avalanche conditions

• Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
• Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.

Went for a poke about on in the POW range, snow line started around 600m and and staged at 750-800m.

Bomb proof snow pack covered by 5-15cm of fresh/wind transported snow. Best skiing was in the trees where it hasn't been scoured or turned to a rime sheet. Lots of wind effect and drifting on access roads to higher elevations, which made travel interesting.. like negotiating 1-2m snow waves.

Saw a bit of avalanche activity on a steeper SW slope, seemed to be a 5-10cm release of the recent storm slab.

Snowpack at 1200m was 210cm in a meadow reasonably with not too much apparent wind transport to skew the results.

Sunny and cold in the morning with the snow pack softening in the afternoon.