Maid of the Mist Basin, Fat Maid

Toured up early hoping to ski fat maid, not much wind effect on the approach, dug a pit just below the base of the line on a N aspect. Found a pretty stable snowpack, didn’t do a full profile, we were mostly looking for any red flags to turn us around. Got a ct14 that didn’t propagate and just fell apart, and ectx, so we decided to continue up. It seemed like the new snow was our main concern. On our way up, found more loaded snow in the apron of fat maid, got a few shooting cracks about 10-15 feet and decided to turn around. Above the apron, we could see old ski tracks and it looked very textured, but we didn’t feel comfortable heading up the apron because of how loaded it looked.