The boss and I made a few laps today in the Franklin Basin area. We found decent coverage in mid and upper elevations, but we were definitely tip-toeing around on the sleds. There are still so many sketchy hidden rocks and logs everywhere. We were glad we made it back home with no broken body parts, splitboard parts, or snowmo parts.

We dug a couple of pits on a northeast facing slope at about 9000 ft. The snow ranged from 36-40" deep and was bonded really well, except for the bottom 12" which was still pretty sugary and rotten. Several compression tests were performed with failures at CT18 and CT20 for Eric and I had failures of CT28 and CT26. Extended column tests resulted in ECTP28 for Eric and i couldn't get a failure in mine with some pretty heavy handed taps. We both came to the conclusion that the bottom crap layer is starting to heal, but still needs a little time before we're willing to get too sporty.