Slayedrian

Banger of a day up at Beadnell aka Adrian! We staged at 2km on the Eden Main, suffered the thousands of woops to the chute access point, and made it up without drama. The 70-100 cm we found in the 'up top' zone is heavily tracked but a few large features were left alone. Probably a good thing. We suspect the size 2 storm slab we saw in the top lake bowl was remote triggered by a sled track yesterday. Lucky no one was caught! We dug 3 profiles in the area of the avalanche, which ran on the March 4 crust. Results were in the hard range with stubborn fractures in an 80 cm-deep layer of wind slab (fat spot) and on the 50 cm-deep crust (thin spot). The crust was up to 120 cm deep in immediate lees. A slit in the clouds gave us a 30 minute window to shred up the plateau, which was all-time. A couple others made it up afterward. Should still be some left!