The snowpack is getting pretty deep and strong. The weakest snow we found today was about a foot deep (30 cm). It was a layer of graupel and what seemed like some faceted snow. There were some weird skinny snow grains. The almost looked like rimed columns. Either way these snow grains shattered across my crystal card like sugary facets. My extended column test broke at 14 taps on this layer but did not propagate (ECTN14). When we were skiing, this layer allowed the new snow to sluff easily. With some wind deposition to create more of a slab, I think this layer would produce sensitive soft slab avalanches.

Photo below show the snowpit wall and this weak layer.

There was almost no wind. Along the ridge above West Butler Saddle leading to Gobblers, there was 3 inches of new, very low density snow that hadn't been touched by the wind.

Photo below shows the grains in the weak layer buried a foot deep. Some seemed faceted. Some were graupel. Some were rimed stellar snowflakes. The long skinny grains are circled.

The Butler Fork residents in photo below.