Black Prince Glades

Went for a walk up Black Prince today with the goal of checking out local conditions and avoiding avalanche terrain. Observed significant surface hoar formation low in the valley on all aspects. Dug a quick pit at the top of our ascent (~2350m) on a SE facing slope on the lee side of wind scoured ridge. HS was around 80cm. Up to 30cm of pencil wind slab sits on top of 50cm of facet crust sandwich. Wind slab produced ECTP5 results as well as the whole block failing at ground on facets at ECT25. Everything mid pack seemed generally well bonded. We skied down the glades skiers left off the obvious avalanche run out with some fun tree skiing. Some people might call it low snow and marginal conditions but two guys from NZ were having a pretty good time!