So the persistent weak layer from last week is still there as seen in the snow profile. It was harder to trigger today, failed at CT26 Q3, and did not fail at all on extended column. So the layer is not as reactive, I think there's a few reasons for this. First of all it has had more time to adjust to it's load. The size of the grains making up the layer on this aspect are smaller than I saw on the NNE aspect. The NW aspect has less of a temperature gradient than the NNE. This is easily seen when both profiles are compared to each other. The smaller grains are more well bonded to the layers above and below, even when it did fail, it was not a clean break at all. So for today I deemed this aspect and elevation good to go, we will see what happens with the forecast snow, should put a good load on it.
