9 inches of new snow and 0.7 SWE (at 3:30PM). It looks like its going to take more to bring the house down, but once again we are teetering on the edge with another smallish loading event. I did not experience collapsing today. I got 2 ECTX results in my pit on a NE face at 11,090. Don't let this result fool you. I continued tapping from the shoulder after the standard 30 taps and got full propagation with sudden planar shears on two occasions at 34, and 32 taps. This doesn't inspire a ton of confidence in our snowpack. This tells me there is a slab above a weak layer and it is capable of producing avalanches. The weak layer of facets sits 55cm below the surface. These facets are 1.5 mm in size and fall out of the pit wall with ease. It's an obvious strong snow over weak snow set up and is not to be trusted.
I also dug on a SW face at 11,140 ft. I found right side up snow on top of a 15cm thick knife hard crust that is really hard to get a shovel through. There are facets on the ground below this crust. Due to the extremely hard nature of this crust, I do not expect to see avalanches breaking down to these facets on the ground.
