Divine intervention on the weather's behalf

Heavens Gate bowl day. New access is much better, barely skinnable through the trees but much more direct. The weather for the day was in and out visibility, lots of gropple, winds were around 20km/h gusting 40km/h, temperature at treeline around -10c all day. Skinning up was a flat light windy experience, but magically, the wind calmed, clouds lifted and the sun came out for our descent. The Boulder field from 1300-1500m was a moderately difficult crust to skin up, but by afternoon had softened up enough to be edge-able and fun for the descent. Light powder began gradually accumulating on this crust as we ascended, 1-2 cm at 1300 to around 10cm at 1650. from 1700-2000m the crust remained thick below 2 distinct layers of 5cm-10cm light crumbly older deposit, and 5-10cm of light powder on top. As we ascended the first layer on the crust became denser and more intact on our hand shears. The bonding between the crust and this layer was generally strong, with one out of eight hand shears breaking easy and staying intact, the others shears revealed sugary slabs that easily separated from eachother, and crumbled with minimal effort. It made for supportive skinning and great skiing on our NW facing line.