Blue bird bad skiing

Went out skiing today to see what the snowpack is doing and to get off the couch. The skiing was bad, variable, grabby, breakable crust, scary on the knees. The day was sunny, gusts of wind of 17.4km/hr but relatively calm, -5 when we started skiing, -1 at outhouse hill parking lot when we returned later in the day. Our observations of the snowpack included a snow pit dug down to 200cm at ~1000m on SE aspect. Probe strike throughout tour to confirm the spot we dug our pit was very deep at 3.5m but average probe strikes around 1.5m. There was a melt freeze breakable crust ~1 cm thick on top likely due to the recent warming weather. Multiple layers under this crust- at ~20cms down, and ~50cms down that were beginning to heal, but still something to watch for. There was no whumfphing, no shoot cracks, no signs of instability, no new avalanches, no pinwheeling today. I will continue to stay at home until we get more snow which will hopefully somehow bond to the melt freeze crust.