16 Jan - great powder... again

Today I went into my backyard hill - a common 'backcountry' haunt in the valley, and skied a specific line I call Low Hanging Fruit. Couple of runs, good quality fast stable powder, with a face shot on every slarve. One run in particular flowed perfectly from top to bottom, only stopping once momentarily to negotiate a small cliffy section. I'm not the type to air stuff, particularly not when alone and away from help. The snow quality at the bottom (1200m) was tending towards a bit heavy, but higher at 1500m it was very good. I think at the bottom of one line I muttered out loud to myself "it doesn't get better". Of course, it does get better, but in the moment that doesn't matter. What doesn't change is how easily I can ski a line of utterly untracked pure powder for 300m vertical non-stop with perhaps only one other person in the general area. It seems powder isn't money after all. No one wants it! Or is it so that only easy powder is money? Easy? Each run cost me 45 minutes of lazy hiking (hence the line name). The steeper 40 degree sections were sluffing lightly, otherwise I saw no signs at all of instability below tree line today. Powder on top of a progressively denser snow pack. Great stuff, but it tricks you into a false sense of confidence and dulls your avalanche brain. Don't let it get too lethargic, as it will catch up with you eventually, like it did last season after endless weeks of generally good stability, then suddenly, not so good. People were caught out.