Corn snow forms when the surface melts and freezes repeatedly. This forms fragile, tiny nodules of ice that ski like absolute magic. Not as good as powder, but sometimes close. After a long wait, we finally found some Sunday on Interglacier.
The hike to the foot of the glacier is something like 3 miles, but feels like more with all the boulder-hopping and weird snow conditions. A lot like the Colchuck Glacier trip.
I've done this trip many times, and it's almost always exhausting (12 miles round trip), but worth it for the long, steepish north-facing run. I bonked hard about 500 vertical feet short of the top of the glacier (Steamboat Prow), and carved out a little recliner in the snow and took in the view while waiting for Jesse to ski down the top part.
From there down, the skiing was fantastic. We traded big, fast turns in hero snow, stopping only to catch our breath now and then.
Looking at this video, I realized I'm getting a little lazy with the footage: A lot of jarring around and poor angles. Will pay closer attention next weekend.
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