Crust Conspiracy

Lots of new snow and fierce southwesterly winds today were doing their best to cover up the nasty old rain and sun crusts that formed over the last few days. Temperatures were still pretty warm and the rain/snow line was hovering around 900m. Visibility was terrible in the alpine with all the sideways snow so we just skinned up to the old fire lookout and skied mellow slopes back down from there. We made sure to avoid any steep north or east facing slopes at or above treeline. We suspected the windblown storm snow was forming reactive new wind slabs there that could be prime for triggering.