Beadnell Bowl Noodles

We wrapped up our week of champagne on crust skiing with some noodling down Beadnell Bowl today. Much like our day in the park yesterday, we found 10-15 cm of fluff--sometimes less, sometimes more--sitting on the crust, again making for challenging travel on anything steep and dreamy turns on anything mellow. Travel in the trees was quite heinous with old frozen tree bombs and drippings rattling our bones on the up and the down. We noticed ever so slightly stiffer wind deposited snow today but not usually in a large enough pocket to constitute a problem. This is definitely something to keep assessing slope by slope though. We each dropped into our steep lines from ridgecrest with a ski cut that yielded no results, but there are almost certainly some slabs lurking out there and the crust beneath continues to provide a excellent bed surface for a wind slab to run on. Nice to see more snow in the forecast!