Slide North of Bozone.

[Lindahl]

Back to the OP, looks like the slope steepens on top of the extra wind deposit up higher. Be careful of different conditions above as you climb what you ski. My partner and I saw this the other day. We were climbing pretty well protected from above due to a rock band, and we went around the rock band to use the rocks as a nice safe transition spot. Above the rock band, in our transition spot, was a great location to test out snow stability on the more avy-prone test slope (short, no exposure, steeper, more wind deposit). We had seen pretty stable conditions throughout the climb so far, but saw significant cracking on this test slope due to a few degrees steeper and an extra 6-8" of snow. We might have popped the whole bowl by skiing or climbing to our left, where there was no rock band to segregate the upper (more dangerous) and lower (safer) slope. As tempting as the snow and deeper coverage looked, we knew not to go in there.

Use the terrain variations to your advantage, don't let it take advantage of you.

[icelanticskier]

well played^^^^^^^^^

rog