Ridge 2000/1

Took a walk up 2000 ridge from Gorby, turning back at ~1700m around 1pm. Did a hasty dig on an E aspect around 10 to try and get an idea what we’d see later on on shadier slopes and saw ~15cm of new storm snow on top of ~30-40cm of soaking wet rotten crystals (not frozen) which sat on a ~2mm crystal clear crust. Camera couldn’t pick up the details so no photo sorry. We found the same trend on the N aspect, and watched the storm snow get progressively gloppier through the day. Rode a N aspect down to ~1200m in the bottom of Liverwurst bowl, with snow predictably getting stickier as we descended… the stuff at ~1700m was pretty glorious. Storm snow blended with the wet stuff to feel bottomless yet supportive. Skinned back up to traverse back round in to Fish bowl, and boy was the low angle, low elevation east face sticky… expect a decent crust there tomorrow if we get a good freeze tonight, it was starting to set up already in the shade at 3pm ish. Like my new favourite symbol? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~