Found a pretty stable snowpack on north facing terrain at 9,600' . Late November facets and early December rain crusts were hard to find visually and appear to have healed nicely as they would not produce shears in any stability tests. In fact the only shears I could get were approximately a meter down on old depth hoar, which is overlain by a stout rain crust. CT22Q2. ECTX (could only get a column in an ECT to fail after 4 hard kicks, aka the AK boot drop). So although bit spooky to still have some obvious junk at the bottom, also appears to be a non-player and you could see rounding of the approx 2mm squares. Attached a photo in addition to the pit profile. Attention will be on the weakening surface in the future.

Also of note were 2 recent glides in the area (submitted separately).