Hollyburn South Face

Above 1200 m, crust was supportive with 2 cm fresh powdery snow, nice. Between 1000 and 1200 m, there was a crust was 5 to 10 cm thick that was penetrable using a strong ski-pole thrust (at the tip & basket end), with 30+ cm of wet snow below. On the uptrack, the crust was supportive and difficult to easily set an edge-hold yet with a stomp a ski-edge hold could be attained. On the ski turns down, that crust was penetrated by the ski-tail edges resulting in a spring-grip that made linking a turn next to impossible. Below 1000 m, crust was hard.