Cornice Ridge

Walked up Cornice Ridge hoping to ski back down, but encountered sliding of small slab plates on steep features, and small shooting cracks. That and low viz let us turn around. Dug a quick pit and found two reactive layer 5 and 10 cm down. Skiing of tree line in ridge was fun with dust on edgeable crust. Nothing moved on us. Then dipped onto north-facing steep tree run near project pillow. Snow was surprisingly soft. Heavy but still fun to ski. Ski out along creek was decent. Overall skiing was better than expected.