Stevens Peak

Skinning from Hope Valley at 8am was mostly on refrozen and supportable crusts through the trees and up into the main east bowl. Sheltered areas that had not seen sun yet (or very little) had varying degrees of crusts from a few mm's to none at all. Topping out on the summit ridge around 930, the snow was still firm/frozen but certain areas were less supportable....unsure if due to warming or just unsupported by the dry snow underneath the sun crust. Sun crusts we're about 1-1.5 inches thick. The top of Stevens north aspects still held some chalky dry snow (unclear if transported recently or lingering). Large cornices hanging over the north bowl (pictured). By 1130am, snow in the east bowl had melted. Skiing was good down to about 8500 ft. Below that the sunny areas were several inches of mank and shaded areas had highly variable crusts - some supportive, most not.