Crowsnest - a window (that we couldn't see ... :-)

Today we were in the Crowsnest - Window Mountain area we found 150 cm of snow at 2200 m. The upper pack is a series of wind slabs of various ages. The early season sugary snow that we expected to find in the mid and lower snowpack are gaining strength. We had no "signs of instability" (shooting cracks, hollow or drum-like sounds, whumpfing) as we toured up and tested small slopes, so we skied a treed, 30 degree slope that gave us some pretty sweet powder turns. There were brief periods where we could see the mountains and the alpine is really wind affected. We didn’t see any recent natural activity.