The persistent weak layer remains on N and NW aspects in the low and mid elevation bands. You'll find this layer of facets about 33cm below the surface. Yesterday this layer was reactive to compression tests, but did not propagate on an ECT. We felt good about skiing because we didn't have much of a slab in place. We said if there was more of a slab, wind slab or otherwise, we would be uncomfortable skiing on top of this weak layer. The original plan today was to ski the shots on the skiers right which are a little steeper and more northerly than what we skied yesterday. The plan was quickly changed when we saw the wind loading that occurred overnight. The snow in the upper part of the pack varied a lot today, and was definitely more slabby than yesterday. We worked the terrain on the far skiers left which is more westerly and lower angle. We still had a collapse on this weak layer in a NW (305 degrees) facing meadow around 10,000 ft.

Today we observed plumes blowing off the summit of Tuk No. and loading it's west facing slopes. Easterly winds on the upper elevation ridges were light to moderate. A significant amount of loading also occurred overnight on NW facing slopes in the corkscrew glades. Enough wind loading happened that there is a real possibility of human triggered avalanches in these fresh drifts on top of the buried PWL.