Decided it was time to go take a look at Gobblers Nob in Millcreek canyon. Total snow pack on the main NW face was 32" with a frozen crust at the base and dense snow at the bottom of the pack with densities lightening as you move up through the snow pack, capped of by light density snow on the surface. We were thinking that the weakest part of the snow pack is the surface snow that is starting to facet and will continue to facet with the forecasted cold spell. Couple ways to tell that the surfaces is starting to facet is the sluffing of the new snow in steeper terrain, and I also notice that skin tracks become slippery when the facet machine is turned on. Right now the snow pack in the terrain covered is stable but if we don't keep getting new snow to insulate it the pack will start to facet, especially in the thinner snow pack areas.

Photos: sluffing in the steeper terrain off the top of Gobblers Nob, dropping cloud deck in the afternoon.

the hazard rating is solely my opinion.