Well I was too tired Saturday night and blew off my observations but after looking this morning I see there wasn't an observation posted for the Uintah's for the weekend and there was 2 things worth sharing. First off, surface hoar was widespread above 9500. It had grown to over 1/2 inch in size and was present in both low lying areas and on the NW slopes I skied. Second, I was getting collapses for the first time this year while skinning NW facing terrain. What is interesting to note, I did not collapse any layers on my first skin up. I was triggering collapses on second and even third lap. The snow was collapsing on the NSF buried in early January. After a few feet pile on top of this layer I wouldn't be surprised to see the same kind of deep slides we saw over the weekend in the Wasatch.

I did dig to the ground in steep (40+ degrees) north facing terrain. HS 120 CM. ECTN 21 BRK/Q3 above the NSFs formed in early January. Other than the weak layer near the surface the rest of the snow pack was pretty stout. The old rain/rime crust sandwiches from early season are now about 6 CM of first hard facets which of coarse is also concerning but at this time this layer is not reacting to stability tests.