Snowpit in Beehive

Today in Beehive we found blowing snow which has grown the easterly cornices significantly since two days prior when we were there as well as pillows of wind drifted snow on leeward slopes. In wind protected locations we found excellent skiing. Previous tracks were filled in with right side up snow that seemed to be bonding well to the previous snow surface. In our pit on a east aspect at 9,000' we found two very thin melt freeze crusts in the top 30cm that produced ECTN as well as facets on the ground that produced no results. On a west aspect we felt that same melt freeze crust buried under the new snow breaking and hooking up our skis. A quick hand pit showed this crust to be a little thicker and harder.