Did a quick pit down off the west ridge out of the wind zone. It seemed very representative of the rest of the snowpack in the area. Yes, the depth hoard is still in the basement but I had to hammer on it fairly hard to get it to propagate. Same results in two Extended Column Tests with propagation at 22 or 23 (full arm blows to the top of the column). So it's still there, just difficult to trigger--a "dormant persistent weak layer" as we call it. But we have to remember that dormant means that it can easily be reactivated by additional loading, which is supposed to arrive tomorrow. It also means that you can still find slopes where you can trigger an avalanche, it's just that they are relatively isolated.

Tomorrow's danger rating depends on the amount of loading from new and/or windblown snow.