As it turns out, ski season is, in fact, here in Oregon. 
I had my suspicions based on last week’s excursions, and in our seemingly endless quest to become better snow scientists, myself, Pete and Gabe made time on yesterday’s tour to make some turns and both the turns and the tests confirm: Yup – It’s time for skiing. 1.5m+ snowpacks, 40-50cms of fluffy new powder on N and E aspects, little by way of reactive slab activity* and plenty of creamy untracked pow, as I believe they call it in the ‘Rado – sounds like ski season to me. Our photographic haul was pretty weak owing to the fact that the only cameras we had with us were iPhones, but even a cell phone camera can tell you that those are powder turns. ¡Viva Noviembre!
*We did find a large reactive slab on steep northerly aspects. If this sort of thing means anything to you, in Ball Butte Bowl on a northeast-facing 40° slope, we found a hard slab 81cms deep which reacted to compression tests at CTH25 @ 81cm (from the ground) SP, ECTP24 @ 84cm. We did not ski this aspect.
It was -22 c in the RADO this morning and our 30 cm snpx is especially blower on this bluebird november morning! Nice turns guys!