Town Hill

Poor snowpack structure present everywhere with facets to the ground. Some big beautiful depth hoar in pockets around the new growth down lower. I dug multiple hasty pits on the way up yielding no propagation on my ECT's until I reached 8,800' where the leeward (NW) side of the ridge had previous wind loading. There was an old wind slab ~1f+ and 70cm thick sitting on a 4f 5cm thick layer of 1mm grains of faceted snow. It failed at ECTP24 with a clean shear. I did not dig deeper than this here. Winds were light with moderate gusts, few clouds. Solars were warming but no recent activity was observed. Beautiful day for shady low angle skiing. Pictured below are crystals from the weak layer on the ECTP24 down70 @8800 NW on 30° slope.