Took a quick jog up to Paul's Ridge this morning. The drive up is a little icy but easy enough with a two wheel drive. There is snow from the parking lot, ice rather. The trail to Red Heather is in good shape and gets softer as you get up there. There is 10cm of light snow on the crust at the cabin altitude, and almost 25cm above the crust at ridge top.
Everything steep slid during the monsoons and some of the exits at the bottom of the chutes are quite bumpy. High up the new snow didn't bond really well to the crust. Had we continued out to the Gargoyles or beyond we would have been very cautious on any large and steeper slopes.
Ski Quality is "Not Bad", but you can still feel the water runnels left in the crust.
Conny Amelunxen
ACMG MG
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