Still soft snow out there.

We spent the day in a sheltered side valley to the east of White Pass in order to avoid south winds coming through the main valley and to seek out softer snow in sheltered terrain. We were able to find some preserved powder in a north facing alpine bowl and the riding was excellent. We had no signs of instability and saw no new avalanches but we did back off a pocket of old wind slab that over hung a terrain trap in a steep, rocky area where we were uptracking. We dug at 1600m below the toe of a glacier and found 220cm of snow and had no results in snowpack tests.