POWDER Valley lives up to its name

Powder Valley lived up to its name! 30 cm of powder has added up from the past 2 storms. It was snowing steady all day and this storm has given us 20 new snow. Visibility was poor, it has warmed up to -7 C and calm, we were surprised by the lack of wind today. We sledded up into where the valley opens up at treeline and found amazing deep powder riding. A profile at lower elevation around 1150 m on an East aspect: we found 120 cm snow depth with 45 cm soft snow on the Jan 25 crust and another down crust down 80 cm. Both weak layers had surface hoar associated with the crust. As expected in this shallower snowpack there is weak sugary snow at the base. At higher elevations the snowpack is deeper and there is a firm wind slab buried under the newest snow.