Morning tour ascended Lake Peak and descended Lake Chute. The winds from the past several days have smoothed out and filled in many leeward aspects providing excellent travel conditions for alpine tours. Am submitting an observation mostly to confirm what I feel is a Low hazard right now. Cannot find any sensitive wind slabs, and although I was in one of the parties that found a persistent weak layer of surface hoar on a mid-elevation slope this past weekend, I think these are very much outliers, and Jason Konigsberg's always excellent observation shows he could not find any mid-pack weaknesses in Millcreek.

For those interested in reading more on how to manage buried surface hoar, Doug Chabot has some excellent thoughts in a piece in TAR.

Overall am finding a very stable snowpack with fair structure.

Photo is of what appears to be a relatively recent debris pile in N-facing Boulder Basin below Lake Peak of what looks to be a class 2 soft slab. Winds have filled in and/or eroded any visible crown, although it appears to have started up high in steeper, rocky terrain. A quick scan of UAC site and this appears to have been unreported.

Usually don't include photos of partners/turns/etc as I think observations are for snowpack only, but this photo gives you an idea of our generally thin conditions in the alpine. My partner Jack wallowing in rocky facet gardens at 10,700'

Excellent interview with our very own Drew Hardesty in "Utah Adventure Journal". Free copies available in rock gyms and outdoor shops.