My pit test show propagating failures on very weak, well developed, and loose dry faceted snow. I triggered some localized cracking up to around a foot deep and failing on the same January facet layer....
My observations today confirm my fears about lingering persistent instability in the area... The danger remains Moderate, with dangerous avalanches involving old snow possible in these kind of isolated areas with poor snow structure. Areas like this, certainly with some spacial variation, but also a more congruous weak layers and poor structure are the ones that scare me the most....
