Dry Winter Powder Snow Skiing

Walked with ski boots on for first 75m then switched over to skis and walked on a supportive refrozen crust up the valley on the shadey side of the creek. Surprisingly good travel up to around the water falls where we had to return to ski boots for a brief period of time. Rest of travel was excellent with a very dense consolidated snow pack on the glacier. Very good to excellent coverage on the glacier with no visible sags. We roped up closer to the top bench when snow pack got below 2m. The wind exposed slopes around 3100m had around 140cm deep of coverage. Top pitch was full probe deep - 320cm. Most of the glacier had a full 320cm probe with spots around 285cm. Lookers left side was shallower then the lookers right side. Powder snow skiing from 3300 down 150m to 200m. To 3100m Lots of visible wet loose avalanches in the valley size 1 - 2 other then direct norths. Lower elevation sun affected aspects are completely melted out. Things are going to change fast with the incoming temperature change. See Bens post for his take on things. Good skiing for late May!