Due south aspects have a bonafide sun crust from the weekend but low angle SE aspects have a more delicate, insidious, RR (radiation recrystallization) crust with 1mm facets below. Something to pay attention to as this layer gets buried with the next storms. I did not find this layer on the steeper SE aspects where the incoming solar radiation simply overpowered the outgoing radiation and left a normal sun crust.

Sheltered mid elevation ridgelines have a new crop of surface hoar. I did not find this along the more exposed park city ridgeline proper.

Pic 1 is of RR crust

Pic 2 is surface hoar

The wind has played a significant role in shaping the park city ridgeline over the last couple weeks. A dense, P hard, hardslab now exists on top of the weak facets near the ground on E through NW to N aspects. HS varies from 130cm to 180cm. The burning question is can the weight of a person trigger one of these big avalanches like West Monitor or Little Water. Not sure but with new snow on the doorstep again it will be wise to hedge your bets and continue to practice conservative routefinding away from the shady aspects for a bit longer.

The pit below was dig on a NE aspect of Big Mac above the Vela supporting structures. This slope is somewhat representative of the West Monitor path which is directly adjacent and to the south. Stability tests are challenging with snow depths greater than 150cm but still telling. No results with ECT but the column did fail and propagate with 30+ taps. PST 60/150 (end) down 20cm suggests difficult to trigger but high propagation propensity.

I tried to get up close and personal with the slide in West Monitor but the large amount of hangfire kept me away from the crown and settled for an alternate adjacent pit location. Not the biggest from this path but still significant (pic 1,2). Many large blocks still in tact in the runnout zone. Lots of flagged trees very low in the path (pic 3). It didn't run full track but the center portion made a good effort (pic 4)

It appears most of the old faceted October snow has been cleared out with this one. At least where the avalanche occurred. There is significant hangfire above the crown and on the flanks.