Had not seen an observation from the main face of Gobblers this year and went to take a look. The main face had extensive wind damage but the wind crust was breaking down and faceting to a point where skiing was not bad, climbing up on the other hand was a bit of work due to near surface faceting making it a slippery hike. Not having looked at the snow pack in that area decided to dig a pit at about 10300ft in the starting zone NW facing. there was a total snow pack of around 3ft and not a lot of layering, basically a one finger slab sitting on a stout crust with about 10 inches of large grain facets underlying the crust. My somewhat rudimentary compression test failed in the large grain facets under the crust and close to the ground interface. Not being much of a pit digger decided to video it, seeing it always works better for me than a bunch of ECT scores. Seems like the stout crust and the dense slab are bridging the underlying facets for now, but if we ever get a large load on top things might reactivate, weakest layer right now seems to be the faceting surface. Photos, pit, stout crust, large grain facets under the crust, wet activity on SW facing Gobblers, and S facing Buttler Fork, and one of the wind skin breaking down, pit video

Moderate for wet activity in the heat of the day low for most other terrain