Sunscreen and powder!

A stunner of a day! Today we went to Montana and Kokanne Bowl in the RMR slackcountry. We found 15-20 cm of dry, unconsolidated snow over the February 2 crust. At 2280 m the February 2 crust was 2 cm thick but still supportive with dry snow found below. The skiing was excellent and far better than expected in the alpine where the crust is uniform. We saw numerous loose dry avalanches from solar input in the last 24 hours and sluffing in steep terrain. At 2200 m the snow surface on solar aspects remained dry until 15:00.