Snowpack said no!

We went out with a plan to ride some steep north facing trees but when we got there we felt the snowpack whumpfing and saw shooting cracks ahead of us. We dug down to have a look and our test results showed a large surface hoar layer buried 60cm deep that was reacting. With this new info we changed our plan and stuck to lower angle trees, avoiding convexities and steep spots.

ECTP 24 on 60 cm deep Jan 30 surface hoar (15 mm crystals)