Fluffy Duffy

Had a great exploration day up the basin to the East of Peak 2318 (Darkside Peak) near Steep Creek. Amazing skiing in the alpine with 30cm+ of new snow on N/NW aspects. We avoided anything steep or convex as we observed many natural size 1/1.5 slides, primarily on N/NE convexities. They appeared to have slid near the end of the last storm on the Dec 31st crust. Crowns varied from 10cm to 30cm depending on when during the storm it let go.

No pit dug but storm delivered as promised. 30-40cm of pretty low density snow at most elevations. Dense trees are still to be avoided even as high as 1700m as the trees are holding a lot of the snow in their branches still. Stick to the roads and do battle with the alders.