Skinned up the east slopes and dropped the Boudoir couloir. Overall, this area is a bit more transitioned to spring snowpack than other areas of Colorado. Most of the snow surface on the approach was melt free crust. Snowboarding down the couloir, the snow was nice decomposing, powdery snow that transitioned to corn around 12,000' There was continuous snow from just below the Leavick townsite to the summit. Some solar aspects are starting to melt out up high. Most couloirs in the peaks around have decent snow cover for climbing, skiing, snowboarding, etc. Still a possibility of isolated wind slab avalanches in this area particularly on high elevation leeward slopes as well as wet slides if snow heats up in most places.
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