Dug down 120 cm, total depth was 160cm. Fist hard slab most of the snowpack. Did compression tests looking for weakness in surface hoar layers, got a CT16,Q2 on the week old layer about 12" down. The youngest surface hoar layer was 4" deep and comperssion test do a poor job of exposing shallow surface weaknesses. From ski cutting we saw the 4" layer was very reactive felt that it was manageable so went forth. Skiing down the slope I noticed a crown opening up slowly in my perif, cut out and let the debri wash by. Yelled up to my partner told him what happened, he then skied down and cleaned out the hang fire. This all ran 1,100' down the chute we were above and piled up fairly deep at the bottom. We then skied the track and pockets of snow immediatly next to the track down into Cardiff Fk.

Prior to this descent we dug a pit in Days Fk. on a similar aspect same elevation. 100 cm deep: fist, then finger hard slab ontop of 4f, then fist 4mm depth hoar columns. CT26,Q2 at the 10cm Fist layer. We went forth, found no sensitivity in the upper layers. Seemed wild to me that these two pieces of snow were so different being so similar in location, slope angle, aspect and elevation.