Picture is not what we skied just comparable to another min with a photo of the same slope on Dec 14th.
Heard 3x expected Natural avalanches on our walk up the valley, couldn't see debris, really nice snow sitting on top of a supportive crust 30-50cm down.
Small test slopes were unreactive
110HS at 2200M
Snowpack
32 degrees
NE
2200m
Air -9.5
T10 -8.7
Ski pen 20
Fp 85
Sky: Overcast
Hs 110
Rough hand hardness
110-100cm Fist df
100-55cm 4f df
55-50cm 1f facets 0.5-1mm this was the crust about 5cm thick. (mostly small square grains some melt forms in there too)
50-20cm 4f facets 2mm
20 - 0 Fist 3-4mm depth hoar
Test results
Ectn 24 down 50 on 0.5-1 Facet