Ending the week in familiar terrain

We went for a quick Friday morning sled/ski back into the Bryant/Fraser Chutes area. Temperatures were -10 by the highway and -5 at treeline with no wind and some valley fog. Travel conditions are okay with a few cm of new snow on a breakable crust. Above 1100m the new snow was bonded poorly to the crust which made skinning challenging. Of note, we also observed sugary snow beneath the melt freeze crust at 1200m in Fraser Chutes. This is not an avalanche problem yet, but it is worth keeping an eye on when it gets buried by new snow loads. We were happy today avoiding big slopes, staying on smaller, familiar pieces of terrain and assessing the surface snow before the next storm comes in.