Two tours this weekend involved looking at thinner snowpack areas in Big Cottonwood drainages (Mineral/Cardiff/Broads) where the snowpack is < 1 meter. Currently the snowpack is stable with a generally Low hazard, but also quite weak in thinner snowpack areas and it may become reactive with a series of moist & windy systems forecasted beginning mid-week. Several quickpits yesterday and today, and most everything is ECTX, or ECTN failing within recent storm snow or at the interface with the faceted layer from 1/1-1/4.

In areas where the snowpack is thicker (> 120 cms) the overall structure looks good, and buried faceted layers are continuing to gain strength.

Wind drifts are currently unreactive where we were traveling, but I would still avoid steep, upper elevation terrain facing northwest through northeast that has been windloaded as drifts are likely sitting on top of weaker facets.