A windy day in the Syncline

A sunny start in the morning turned to windy and snowy throughout the day. Moderate to strong SW winds were moving a lot of snow building a thin new windslab in lees. We saw some cracking and had a size 1 from a ski cut that was 5-15 cms deep and about 20m wide which ran on the Feb 1 melt freeze crust. Photos attached. Pretty decent skiing out of the wind affect! There’s definitely the odd pocket of crust/ice on the surface, but it’s skiing well. PS: Bring ski crampons! Challenging skinning in spots.

Ski cut on a steeper loaded drift.