Claimstake

South facing aspects above tree line were wind scoured with icey patches. A quick pit was dug at about 1880m. We had not seen any signs of any instability at all prior to the dig. The quick column test noted about 20 cm storm snow (one finger snow) on a thick ice crust that was very touchy. Noted that during the test that with more force applied to the compression that the storm snow layer reacted and slid and this propagated through to a second crust layer another 20-30 cm down. Because of the reactivity down to this second deeper crust we changed our goals of riding some steeper pitches off the summit. We elected for careful terrain selection on the way down and none in our group triggered anything at all. We did avoid steep slopes as a result of the test.