Brandywine Season-Opener Bowl

We rode a north facing bowl off of the South ridge of Brandywine mountain as well as some E & SE open slopes. We stuck to smaller terrain features where potential slab size was minimized, as surprisingly, we observed multiple signs of instability even in the very new snowpack. Roller-balls were widespread after the sun broke through the clouds for a few hours midday, making the snowpack heavier and creating an extremely thin zipper crust at lower elevations that wasn't thick enough to impact skiability, or provide much support.