Quick report
Small weak layer sitting around 40cm deep. Larger weak layer, crust, and then fresh surface hoar on the surface that could lead to future instability.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- none
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Snowpack
Significant surface hoar on all aspects. Large crystals, up to a couple cm deep. Breakable crust underneath that with a soft layer underneath. Dug a pit at 6400' on a south facing low angle face. Snow depth was approximately 105cm with bushes in the bottom so I wasn't able to perform a full ECT but I tried to do some tests. Soft layer under the crust (around 5cm depth) was 4-finger hard. Another layer at around 40cm could be easily penetrated with a single gloved finger. On a not-full-size ECT, the top crust failed on tap 1 at 5cm depth and did not propagate (ECTN 5). Collapse was 2-3cm. On tap 13, the 40cm deep layer collapsed and propagated (ECTP 13). Collapse was small (maybe <1cm) but clearly noticeable.