Touchy surface hoar and great skiing

Riding quality was:

Amazing

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder
• Powder

We rode:

• Convex slopes
• Open trees
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Cold

Avalanche conditions

• Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
• Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Great skiing at Anderson the last two days. Deep and light powder. We are finding a very reactive surface hoar layer buried by Thursdays snow down 15-20cm, becoming more reactive as you descend. Shooting cracks, wide propagation for the features in question, and slabs to size 1, worst in the 1000-1200 band. Could easily cause a serious situation in steep treed terrain. Seems widespread around Anderson but people would have reported it if it was active at Shames so maybe just localized.

-18c at the cabin this morning, new surface hoar on the snow surface Since Thursday as well in most places.