Skiing the Dirty Slurpee

We toured up an east facing avalanche path today north of Sparwood, and found about 3-6cm of moist storm snow on an old crust that changed and became firmer and more supportive the higher we went. We dug a pit at around 1875m and found a total of 2 meters of snow. We also did an extended column test which propagated/failed on the 22nd tap on a combo layer of surface hoar and a crust down around 60cm. Based on that we decided to avoid the steep start zone of the avalanche path we had climbed and skied down a mellower line. There was decent skiing above 1500m, below that it felt like we were skiing a giant slurpee.