Point 6 East Ridge

We saw remnants of four small wind slab avalanches that occurred four days ago during the last storm. We suspect one was the remote-triggered avalanche previously reported, and the others were likely naturals.

We dug a pit on a south aspect in above freezing temperatures, and found multiple buried crusts with thin layers of facets in between. We then popped over to a north aspect and got a propagating test result under the wind slab layer. This gave us pause when considering steep northerly aspects, even though we haven't seen recent human-triggered avalanches.

The variety of snow surfaces (wind slab, crusts, moist snow, surface hoar) will provide variable bed surfaces for the next snowfall event.

The snow surface was a mixture of hard wind slab, softer decomposing snow, moist snow, and crusts. In sheltered areas we even found rounded surface hoar.

We had a propagating extended column test down 15 inches, (ECTP16) under the surface wind slab on a north aspect at 7800 feet.

We dug a full profile on a south aspect where the snowpack was 40 inches deep. This is much shallower than most of the places we've dug recently. We found a series of crusts buried 11 inches deep. There were weak facets between the crusts, and the crusts themselves were starting to facet out. We did not get a result on an extended column test (ECTX), but we did get a planar failure on moderate taps in a compression test down 11 inches immediately under the uppermost crust (CT17 (RP)).