Hilda Area

Variable snow in Hilda area today, stuck to mellow tree line slopes and avoided the alpine. Mix of old and new wind slab, powder, and crust depending on aspect, with best turns being in sheltered trees. No signs of instability, dug a few hand shears that were failing in the hard range, although we were only S faces. Typical ski out gully is quite tracked, so we ended up traversing and bushwhacking which made for quite an adventure. Coverage is actually quite good after this most recent storm, no real base damage to speak of.