On our tour today we observed very thin cover on south facing slopes, grass poking through. We skinned up a NE facing ridge off of North Creek. We found a dry, non-cohesive layer of "fresh" snow on the more northerly aspects of the ridge and dense, moist and sticky snow on the east and southeast aspects of the ridge. Near tree line, the ridge was wind loaded and we found many wind drifts and what was likely a dense wind slab in places. In one particular area (where we dug our pit) we heard whumphing and saw cracking but otherwise did not observe any additional signs of instability.

At the top, we skinned across the ridgeline down to a saddle where we intended to drop in on an East facing slope. We probed in this area and got a snow depth of about 90cm. We found surprisingly nice, creamy snow on the east face and had a fun ride down.