Refreshing Stability

The new snow really helped things out here. We dug a pit on an east facing 35 degree slope at treeline. 155cm deep, we did an extended column and didn’t get any results. After extensive prying from the back it did fail on a later 110cms down (probably the Dec 4th crust). Very stable! Riding was mostly power with hints of crust below. Only about 15cm on storm snow on top but it rode more like 30cms. No other signs of instability or avalanches anywhere. No real wind effect either, maybe just the start of some on the ridge top but otherwise good. Clouds rolled in around 1pm but the day started sunny and temps hovered around -23 at ridge top.