Today was my first visit to the PC Ridgeline this season, pleased with what I saw. Dug a snow pit on due north facing South Monitor at about 9,600ft down of the ridge line to get out of wind drifted terrain and was basically seeing a two inch thick melt freeze crust at the bottom with a thin layer of small grained facets on top then the new snow from the last two storms, total snow pack was around 18" to 20" on the North facing. The stubborn shear I got in the pit was on this layer of facets but it seemed spotty and not well connected and took some prying to get it to go. Decided to ski the east facing line which had neither the melt freeze crust or the thin layer of facets, just damp snow at the ground and the last two storms snow sitting on top, no weak layers noted. All in all things seemed fairly stable in the terrain covered, I was not seeing any of the depth hoar, that's lurking on the higher, shady, rocky norths. West facing USA Bowl had the new snow sitting on a melt freeze crust as well. No cracking or collapsing noted in todays travels.

Photos: Snow pit, The wall of the snow pit where you can see the line that divides the two storms, and a little trenching in USA Bowl, Happy Thanksgiving

Moderate on high, shady, north facing slopes, low everywhere else.