We headed out to look at the new snow instabilities, and what the PWL looked like on both NE and W facing aspects. While traveling we did not experience any collapsing or cracking, like early stated we did see a few signs of new snow instabilities such as fast-moving new sluffs, nothing large enough to knock someone off their feet. We dug two pits today, one on a NE aspect and one on a W aspect. Within both pits, we were unable to get repeatable propagation. In the NE facing pit at 8560' we were only able to get get a collapse down 35cm, and no propagation. The pit dug on a W facing aspect at 8600' initially had a test result of ECTPV. We then performed this test again. The second test was performed in the same area we observed an ECTX. It is important to note, there was shrubbery on the ground. However, this was a good example of spatial variability in our snowpack currently. The weak faceted grains exist on many aspects, and with the increase of snow and wind, I would expect to see more human and natural triggered avalanches.

---