Good skiing above 1200m

Toured S-SE and E aspects between 900-1800m. Excellent skiing above 1200 m on south faces once you ascent beyond the weak but widespread crust, which exists on all aspects below this elevation. From 1200-1800m, anywhere between 5-25cm of unconsolidated snow sits atop a variety of hard surfaces. Persistent deep weakness being a concern, we managed smaller pieces of well supported and sheltered terrain to piece together a fun and fairly conservative tour into the alpine. There were light winds at ridge top but otherwise very little air moving in the valley. Sun was out for most of the day in the Fraser Lake area and afternoon point releases were observed on south faces; no other signs of surface instabilities were evident anywhere in the valley including higher elevation north faces. The forecasted winds to 30km did not materialize but that looks to change with 50-70km gusts on the way in the coming days. As always, conditions in the pass change fairly dramatically from one day to the next. It's always worth taking a stab at it, because sometimes it turn up aces.