Dust on the corn

Steve and I went searching for corn and found excellent conditions on ENE facing 10000' elevation bliss in what we will call Little Left Fork of Staker Canyon Bowl. Milford Fire dust has covered the Plateau and collected just where transported snow would land in similar SW wind conditions creating a graphic example of wind transport (see pic with brown snow just beyond ridgelines). Our timing was excellent as temps dropped below freezing at noon yesterday and were in the teens overnight setting up snow into a layercake crust that was near 1o" thick. Light winds and clear skies greeted us and we made 3 laps on 40+ steeps with carvy corn. Made our escape out by noon and eyeballed some more similar terrain in Bennett Canyon to the south and in the next drainage beyond Bennett. When will it ever end? so much snow and so little time.

Google image is looking south into Bowl.

Wedding Ridge Ridge had shed a chunk of cornice in yesterdays heating, but lots remain on summit ridges across the Plateau.