A Pleasant Surprise on Forum

We expected some dust on crust and horrendous conditions but were pleasantly surprised by a nice new layer of powder 15-20cm thick, 25cm in protected wind loaded areas. This sat upon various bombproof melt-freeze crusts of January. This crust covered layers of various hardness but ultimately sat on a 10-15cm layer of facets. This whole structure sat on another hard crust about 60cm down. A CT found the top crust to be unreactive but yielded hard results (21) on the lower crust 60cm down. Failure was a bit resistant but planar. Overall, skiing conditions were quite good but we felt the crust at spots. I gave the day a 7.5/10.