Today's snow was typical dust on crust. The new snow was light and not bonded to the snowpack at all. When on the skin track I had to keep an edge planted or my ski would slide out, shoveling the new snow off of the crust below (picture attached). The previous wet snow layer from the late February storm was a brutal thick crust layer. I hit one small drop off some deadfall and there was zero forgiveness, it felt like landing on a cat track at a resort. My ski tracks only penetrated the new snow layer. The dust on crust and low snowpack resulted in some very fast skiing chattery skiing in the trees.
I took a break and punched through the crust with a glove on a dig some quick digging. The PWL/dry January layer is still there and hasn't changed much. Still very loose and dry (attached video/did deeper digging than the video shows to confirm the PWL).
