(Not) Cold Feet

Proper Spring-regime + conditions today, with rapid warming of the snowpack on solar aspects when the sun came out. We sledded up Hartley Creek Road and then skinned up through the forest to ridgetop at 2050 m. With limited visibility, we observed two natural storm-slab avalanches on a NE facing slope that looked to have slid in the last 24 hrs. There were 20 cm of soft snow over the early April melt-freeze crust (which was supportive to skis down to around 1850 m). After a few glorious dry-pow turns from the top at 2050 m, by the time we reached 1950 m the surface was moist and we had lots of roller-balls moving with us as we skied an open-gladed west facing slope.. Although the staging area was down to dirt, we had snow all the way up Hartley Creek Trail. Thanks to @ferniesnowmobileassociation for great maintenance all winter, especially for plowing out the slides-onto-the-trail-above-the-lake a couple of weeks ago!