Flying Crustaceans

Been up at the Red Mtn cabin for the past two days. Yesterday (Saturday) we skied mellow open slopes and treed slopes. We poked around more throughout today (Sunday). Woke up this morning to ~1 cm ice/rime crust on all aspects and elevations between at least 1400 m to at least 1800 m. Had reactive moderate results on a north face down 30 cms overlying very weak facets. We stuck to skiing south facing slopes primarily in open and dense trees on slopes below 25 degrees. We had a couple lines in moderately dense trees on up to 40 degree slopes with no failures. The snowpack certainly looks solid at first glance, but this persistent slab makes avoiding large, convex slopes the way to go.