Skied Bourgeau 9 above the waterfall today. Travel was fast and easy to the ridge, ridge up was heavily scoured and involved a mix of booting and skinning due to exposed rocks.
The upper lower angle part of the face was atrocious skiing on pencil sastrugi and old windslab.
Entering the main slope there was some new and touchy cornice(up to 30cm) with 5-10 of fist to 4F snow on the slope below, we easily dropped the cornice and did a ski cut but got no results on the slope below. Skiers left side of the guts(windward) was either firm old windslab or zipper crust, skiers right side of the guts(leeward) skied very well with up to 10 of consistent fist to 4F.
Below 2250m the there was a widespread suncrust on all sun-exposed southern aspects that was skiable but slightly hooky. In the trees there is still good snow.
Overall solid feeling snowpack with some fresh windslabs and cornices slowly building and thin spots gradually getting more faceted. No surface hoar observed.
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