Angell Basin

I found between 1 and 1.5 feet of new snow that has fallen since last weekend. As of today, the new snow was dry, loose, and uncohesive but in the coming days I expect that it will settle into a slab. Down about 2 feet, I still found weak, faceted snow beneath the 2/8 crust. It was generally unreactive in my stability tests but with the new load, it is worth being cautious in your terrain choices in the next few days.

I found between a foot and a foot-and-a-half of snow that has fallen since last weekend. I did several mitt-pitts and found the new snow to generally be dry, loose, and uncohesive but I did find a few locations where the lower half of the new snow was forming into a soft, consolidated slab. I stomped around on several small, steep indicator slopes and did not see any cracking or slab formation.

I dug two pits, one on a WSW aspect at 7700' and a second on a N aspect at 8340'. Within the new snow, I did get Sudden Collapses down about 1.5 feet in my Column Tests, but I did not get any propagation on any layers in my Extended Column Tests. Further down in the snowpack, I continued to find weak, facted snow about 2 feet down, below the 2/8 crust. While I did not get any propagation on these layers in my ECTs, I did get results in a Propagation Saw Test (PST 30/100 End), which suggests poor structure on this layer. Regardless of test result, this amount of new snow is worth increasing your margins and stepping back from big terrain.