From Brown Beauforts to White Washy

We started our day excited to check out the Beauforts with a trip to Mount Apps. To our dismay, we came across the same issue we have all week. The road is packed ice with rain on top, impassable by vehicle, but then followed by many kms of dirt making it less than desirable travel by snowmobile. In an attempt to salvage our day and see some real snow up close with our eyes, we headed to Mount Washington. It was snowing heavily the whole time we were there, there was about 30cm of new snow in the past 24 hours. We dug a pit away from skier traffic on a northwest aspect around treeline and found results on the early January crust. We had moderate sudden planar results in our compression test as well as moderate sudden planar results in our extended column test. These results left us wary of getting into any avalanche terrain. The winds were howling around us, filling our tracks back in, and likely building wind slabs in the lee areas.