Winds cookin' on Cokely

Headed down South Island and checked out Mt Cokely today on the hunt for wind slabs. We made it to 7 km on Pass main before jumping on the sleds and getting to 1450 m. Snow surface was variable with a mix of crust, some dust and wind slabs. Sustained moderate to strong winds has moved most of our new snow and formed 5-15 cm wind slabs all the way down into treeline. As we walked around the summit approach at 1500 m, it took some force to produce sluggish cracks that did not propagate much past the ski tips. Any snow that we could get to move was failing on soft snow a few cm's above the crust. As we headed back down we were stoked to see skies darken and snow starting to fall.