Divide basin

Toured in divide basin today. I dug a pit at 9400’ on a NE aspect (HS130) to look for weak layers and found 3. There is a layer of near surface facets at 110 cm, buried surface hoar at 92 and depth hoar 61 to the ground. Between 90 and 62 there is a 1 finger slab. The depth hoar is very weak. I did an extended column test and it did not propogate, but I was not planning on skiing slopes steeper than 30 degrees anyways. High clouds in the AM gave way to bluebird skies in the afternoon. Around 1:30 the temperature began to rise and I left before the snow got sticky. A SW wind was moving snow along hyalite ridge, where there were numerous small loose dry avalanches. Winds were fairly calm in the basin but there evidence of wind transport.