Nice tour up into Days today to see how the new snow was coming in and how it was bonding (or not) to the older snow and thin crusts from last week. We did find this crust at the bottom of CSR but it wasn’t as prevalent higher up. Snow depths in the two locations I probed (around 9600, E facing) were both around 160 cm. Last week’s storm and today's new snow both overlay a stout slab, perhaps 1F+ or P.

As far as the snow that fell today: it was very touchy - lots of shooting cracks on the skin track and as we descended; and we ski cut some small, shallow storm slabs in some isolated steeper terrain. Photos of both below.

The red flags we saw in the field, as well as the well documented and still active PWL, kept us off sustained steeper pitches and out of avalanche paths. Fortunately amazing powder skiing was found off the ridges in the trees.