Cornice Ridge

We skied off the top of Cornice Ridge into Ptarmigan Couloir. 10-15cms of new snow mostly well bonded to the underlying surface on north and northwest terrain in the alpine. Deeper drifts existed on the lee side of subfeatures on the ridge but were stubborn when we tested them. Sluffing in the couloir but no instability. Cornice Ridge itself was more like 8 unconsolidated cms on a hard crust and down towards the Shames base area it was full dust on crust. Evidence of a mid-storm sluff cycle on Mt. Remo's west face but the only avalanche observed was a size 1 cornice failure down low in the basin. BIG surface hoar growing on the ridge all the way to the summit -- up to 2cms already!