Trout River Bowl, Tablelands.

Icy approach into “The Bowl” today. Strong winds have ravaged, and striped areas clean to our last significant rain crust. This widespread rain crust is extremely icy, thick, and showed to be the bed surface of last Thursdays large avalanche, on the Eastern flanks of the bowl. Significant reloading from W winds since then. Of note was how far this slide ran. A large volume of snow, crossed the bowls bottom, up a slight incline, and continued to spill over onto the lower slopes. Heavy loading still, more Central in the bowl and under some truly impressive cornices.  Found some enjoyable turns, off the low angle accent shoulder in the lower bowl. Dug a lot for looks at the interface between the rain crust, and any newer/loaded snow. Had consistent hard results in Compression Tests, with no proportion in Extended Colume Tests