No surprise

Went for a walk up Lake Louise valley to check out conditions. Lots of activity from the storm cycle. Main paths on Fairview punch a hole in the lake. Very large slides off the entire S face of Mt Whyte. Skin around on the S side of the drainage now. Oddly Surprise Pass did not go very big. Just a smaller release put of the lookers right tributary from midway up and didn't come down far. Skinned up to the top of the trees at no surprise hoping the coulior and elevation might make things better but wasn't anywhere near high enough. Travel across the lake and valley bottom was good and supportive on firm refreeze but a few hundred metres up in the trees it started to be less supportive and breakable wet crusts. Dug a pit around 2300m and it was just soaked to ground. The top 20cm was a mix of rain crusts and snow but under that was 30cm of wet midpack then a metre of wet facets that somehow seemed even less cohesive that usual. Things felt pretty good skiing but digging that pit made me decide to turn around. Skiing was a bit punchy and tough but got better lower down as the crust firmed up. Looking around it seemed that most avalanche activity had come from around 26-2700m with very large crowns propagating wide and running to ground full length. Smaller activities from lower down seem to be more point releases that have just entrained wet loose mass. All aspects. Above 2700m couldn't see any activity. Very fat alpine but wind was extreme and moving lots of snow around. Honestly pretty stumped on conditions. Haven't seen a snowpack like that before. Hopefully the more mins the quicker we figure out where's good!