Quick report
Traveled to near Scatter Peaks and Van Epps pass. The sun was very strong today, tree bombs and drips as soon as the sun hit them, only true North facing sloped were not noticably sun affected by the late afternoon. As soon as slopes went into the shade, a breakable suncrust immediately formed. Cliffs were shedding and roller balls and small point releases (looked to be loose wet) Forgot the loup and snow saw so less formal/scientific than originally planned. I dug two snow profiles to get a look at the EFC. North Aspect, 5600. 35 cm of light, cold powder (Fist), then another 65 cm of 1F with numerous layers and crusts before finding the EFC at 100cm. Did not do any formal snowpack tests, but isolated a column and pried on it with the shovel, it eventually failed after considerable force on decomposing crystals at the EFC. I took this to mean that PWL continue to exist on N aspects. Southeast aspect, 5700 ft. 5cm wet/saturated snow on the surface, sitting atop a 10 cm supportable crust (for skis), then roughly 45 cm of 1F to the EFC, unlike on the North aspect, there were no discernable crusts or layers. Was short on time, so skipped even the most informal of stability tests. Beautiful day in the mountains.