Mad for Trapper Mountain

We are on the Coast this week! Today we checked out a new zone for us called Trapper Mountain. It was a warm day with slushy above zero temps at the parking lot. Once we got above 1300 meters the snow was dry and cold still, and there was about 30cm of dry snow over last weeks supportive rain crust. We saw evidence of the avalanche cycle from last weeks warming but no new avalanches. We dug on a N facing slope at 1500m. We were unable to cut through the firm snow with our cord to complete an Extended Column Test (ECT)! Compression tests showed moderate resistant planar results down 30 cm at the crust interface.