2"

Low

Powder

2" of dust on crust. The new snow was not well bonded to the sheet of ice beneath it, at all altitudes and elevations from the base of Grizzly Gulch all the way up to Wolverine. I had hoped that the protected high altitude chutes between 10-11k would have retained some powder, but everything but the most protected treed gullies I crossed had iced over before the dusting came in. Along steep terrain (~40 degrees and steeper), a drag of the ski pole across the dust would start it sliding all the way to the runouts, although it slid rather slowly. West and North facing chutes had naturally sloughed a good portion of the new dust by the time the sun started making them visible. East facing are wind loaded and will likely shed their coat with the slightest trigger. THC appeared to be the only East facing chute that sloughed by my visit around sunrise, probably on the nice slick bed surface of last weeks reported slide there.