Hero's Knob Early Stroll

<p>Left the Sawmill parking lot around 0730, -8C, no winds and clear to broken skies, no precip. The cloud coverage until noon kept cooler temps in the alpine as well as at TL. Perfect travel conditions. Several size 2 wet loose observed on solar aspects. The skin track was very thin at times and icy (we did some boot packing across the summit ridge on nice hard surface) Obvious temperature surface crust all the way to the summit (2500m) on most aspects. The NW slopes had good skiing with no crust but required some navigation around remnants of wet loose ice blocks.</p>

Weather Report

<p>Colder then anticipated with more cloud cover and minimal new snow. Left the area by noon and snow was still dry.</p>

Terrain Ridden

Alpine slopes, Convex slopes, Mellow slopes, Steep slopes.

Terrain Avoided

Sunny slopes.

Snow Conditions

Crusty, Hard, Powder.

Weather Conditions

Cloudy.