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Dug a pit to check out the rain crusts. Skiing was dust on crust. Pit results were encouraging but we will continue monitoring our various PWLs

Overcast with decent visibility. Temperature was around -6 for most of the day.

Dug a pit facing NNE on a 28 degree slop. CTM14 result was crumbling of the recent storm snow/rain crust about 10 down. CTH showed no results at 30. However with excessive force (just for good measure) we did see a failure on a suspected surface hoar layer 60 down. One goal we had was to determine if the December 8th rain crust buried about 150 down was at all reactive. The only result on this layer was with excessive force after half the column had already been removed, but that rain crust seems to have become a crust/facet/crust sandwich and it still clearly visible