Dog leg

Breakable rain crust with lots of sticks and bushes sticking out below treeline. The rain crust is supportive at treeline and above with 40 cm of low density Fist powder on top. Excellent skiing. At 2200m down 40cm is 5cm rain crust with moist snow below. At 2300m SE aspect we found a double rain crust down 39 cm (1 cm Knife) and at 47 cm a 1 cm pencil crust. Compression test failed under the lower crust in the hard range on small facets. The snow pack was dry at 2300m but steep temperature gradient above the crusts and a constant temperature below. Forecasted extreme winds didn't occur but mountain top winds were strong with occasional moderate to strong gusts at Treeline. Skied slopes below 30 degrees as we didn't trust the rain crust.