The weather as of late has been ideal for visiting the high terrain to gather information about surface conditions, snow depths, and structure. The skiing has also been improving day by day due to the pre-existing wind slabs getting eaten away by the faceting process. Calm conditions and clear skies today made travel very enjoyable. Observed minimal saltation of snow along some exposed ridge lines and terrain features. Temps remained cold enough to make standing around in the shade slightly uncomfortable. And even during lunch in the sun, I put on a puffy. Supportable conditions made skiing and ridge-walking quite easy in the alpine. Some sand-boxing occurring in mid elevations form rampant faceting. Windboard on open high alpine slopes was smooth, but the dappled (textured) snow skied great, particularly in low angle gullies. Very small pockets of shallow wind slab noted and were easily identified by their hollow sound. Below 9500' coverage is still an issue in lots of terrain and there is plenty of buried treasure to trip you up and steal your PTEX. No activity noted today, although you could see there had been some natural activity following the last storm in Upper Red Pine between the lakes and above on the shoulder of White Baldy. Evidence of lots of big terrain ridden in Upper Red and White Pine with impunity this weekend.