February 20, Mt. Hood Northeast side

Tilly Jane skintrack up to about the burn area is awful right now- a mixture of dirt paches, chunky snoeshow tracked hardpack, and shiny blue ice.  Most bruised I've been after a day of skiing in about two years thanks to two falls on the trail onto concrete hard ice, once skinning up, and once coming back out. 

~5,000-6,500 was smooth supportable crust.  A little grabby but not too bad.  Not the corn I was hoping for however.  Things didn't really warm up that much.  Above about 6,800-7,000 is wind hammered sastrugi and ice.  I was skiing super mellow stuff so I don't really have much to report stability wise, but from a skiing standpoint  there's basically a gap of decent conditions between the re-frozen slop down low and the wind hammered up high.  Some great views out there today too, but way too much green and not enough white for this time of year.