Mount Harvey

I skied up Mount Harvey today. It was -5C at sunrise under overcast skies. Treeline and below, there was about 10cm of light snow on top of a crust...until... the inversion became noticeable at ~1400m and it was wet on up to the summit. There was a strong wind from the South and it was quite warm despite the freezing rain that started to fall when I neared treeline. By the time I was higher and checking out pockets of old stiff wind-slabs it had turned to heavy, wet, large-flaked hypno-snow. If the weather was similar in other locales, the alpine received freezing rain on a variety of old, hard, windswept surfaces...then sticky, clumpy, wet snow on top. Snow accumulation by the time I skied down was about 3 or 4cms in the alpine. The cloud cover--which was engulfing The Babines above 1800m (see photos) --was literally within arms reach from the summit of Harvey which created visual effects worth experiencing. Any day with skiing is a good day.