Couple things stood out to me: For one our Snowpit Depth at 185cm. Much deeper than any other area I have dug this season. To me this is not representative of our current snowpack but good information for those areas heavily wind loaded areas with a deeper snow depth.

Our Snowpack right now is plenty weak but the reason we are not seeing avalanches is because we are lacking a cohesive slab off snow. We dug in a area where the snow surface was very firm (1-finger to Pencil hardness, an old windslab). I wanted to find a location with a slab and see what we might find.

To me this snow pit was a outlier of our general snowpack in Big and Little Cottonwood. Digging around the past couple days I've been seeing a much shallower snow depth averaging 50-75cm. So what does this snowpit mean? Well I don't exactly know. It's a outlier but it's the outlier that catch people off guard and can kill them. Low danger doesn't mean No danger.

Test Results:

• Compression Test (CT)- 8-Q2-25cm down (Wind Slab)
• CT-13-Q2-61cm failed on Graupel above crust
• CT-16-Q2-96cm failed on Graupel

Extended Column Test

• ECT-P-12-Q2-25cm down (Wind Slab)
• ECT-N-18-Q3-55cm
• ​ECT-N-22-Q3-85cm