Today's tour was on Knob Mountain at elevations ranging from 7,000 to 10,100 feet on primarily north and west-facing aspects. The snowpack is slowly growing and making travel in the mountains easier but we could still use quite a bit more snow to cover logs and deadfall, especially at the mid elevations. I dug a pit on a Northwest facing slope at 9,650 feet (see attached photo.) Total snow depth here was 85 cm. There is a 30 cm layer of very weak faceted snow at the bottom of the snowpack, with a 55 cm slab of right-side up snow above it. The top 20 cm of this is the new low-density snow from last nights storm which isn't too cohesive yet. This was in a very sheltered area, and I might expect to find denser and more cohesive slabs in areas with more wind-affected snow or at higher elevations where it has snowed more. As explained above, the main avalanche problem to watch out for is slab avalanches failing on the persistent weak layer of facets at the ground.