Bow Summit

We skinned up through the meadows east of the parking lot and up the creek drainage. It was snowing 4cm an hour and 25cm had fallen at the parking lot overnight. There were occasional wind gusts bellow treeline and at treeline. Observed cracking (storm slab) in the gulley. At about 1:00 we dug a pit on a 32º NE aspect slope. RB2 sudden 40cm storm slab. DTT24 facets above Nov. 5 crust. The Dec 7 and 13 layers were visible, but were unreactive in our tests. Once at treeline, we could see an estimated size 2 natural avalanche across the valley on a wind affected SW aspect steep slope. It was most likely the 40cm storm slab. Skiing was phenomenal in the deep powder. We navigated our way through open and tighter trees until we got back to the creek/gully and skinned back to the highway at about 4:45.