Hyalite conditions

We toured up into the Maid today to see how conditions were looking. Low snow down low and starting to stack up in the basins. We dug a pit on a East aspect at 9500, the pit showed a 100cm deep snowpack. Large facets were found from the ground up to 40cm. There was a hard crust layer at 40cm, above the crust layer was a dense slab that hasnt turned completely rotten yet. The snowpack was dense above the crust layer, but less consolidated towards the surface (upside down). We had an ECTN 21 at 40cm. We also observed numerous wind slabs that relaeased naturally during the day on N-NE aspects near ridgelines (6-12 inch crowns). We also found touchy wind slabs on micro terrain lower in the basin.