I was skiing on the NE side of Flute into the Oboe drainage today. Very good if not excellent quality snow with about 30cm ski pen and 60 cm foot penetration.
The last few days of new snow is still bonding a bit loosely. We could ski cut steeper areas and get small slab releases to about 45cm down from the surface. A pit at about 1800m showed easy and moderate results 20cm and 45cm down from the surface. The 45cm test popped out very clean on a layer of stellar. The upper 45 cm was Fist to a hard 4 Finger density. Saw no new natural avalanche activity.
All this encouraged conservative decisions. The Avalanche Hazard at tree line was Considerable today. The weather cleared up beautifully before sunset.
Dave Sarkany
SG