Roses are better late than never

Never know till you go was the lesson learned today. We showed up late and figured we'd look around and planned on riding sunny slopes for an afternoon corn cruise. And ol man winter provided. Excellent supportable and grippy and stable skinning on the way up. Upon reaching near and above treeline terrain the snow stayed supportable and pole plants around 8k and upwards showed a supportable pack. Upon reaching the summit at around three o'clock the temps dropped, cloud cover dominated the sky and the snow was good to go with very supportable three to four inch corn snow found on the descent. At noon the sun was in full force but that seemed to be the height of the warming and the snow never reached the threshold in our location today. Good and supportable riding conditions to the car. No signs of instability noted and we worked aspect and elevation to have an enjoyable afternoon in the "range of fire"