Jim Hill N. Slope, Ode to the trip report

The pertinent points:

Breakable sun crust formed on all but direct north aspects or fully tree shaded edges fromVentilator pullout to about 4500 feet.  

4500 ft. to our high point at 6400 ft. settled fast powder from overnight radiative cooling.  Boot top on a higher density settled base.  High clouds came in early which moderated solar warming and kept the snow cold and fast back to the top of the lowest headwall.  Below that temps were above freezing and, even without sun, areas free of crust from edge forest shading were getting heavy.  Sun was never strong enough to melt the breakable crust on the open east aspect where the typical skin track climbsthat avoids the lower headwall.

Lots of tracks from Saturday, but we were able to wander to find our own untracked lines.  

Evidentally, this is TR number 150 for me.  Figured I'd make it a even number after Avajane mentioned the dearth of TRs of late.