Er … per the forecast !

A good overnight-recovery (aka yesterday’s moist snow froze hard overnight) gave us an awesome morning trip into the Barnes area today. We found dry snow without wind affect above 2000 m on north facing slopes, and saw widespread pinwheeling on steeper sunny slopes. Those sun-facing slopes had a moist surface by midday, with 20 cm of soft snow over a supportive-to-boots crust. That crust was not breaking down on SE asp. (Likely was on steep full south-through-west, but not tested), but we headed home as the day warmed up. Light SW at ridgetop, only a few clouds. HS (full snow depth) 180 cm at 2000 m. Access on the Flathead FSR was full-snow after the first 50m, although (as you’d expect), the staging area is looking pretty farmyard !