Snow was quite variable. Many south and westerly aspects are completely snow-free, or have very shallow snow depths. On north and east aspects, snow depth increases quickly. I did not observe any collapsing or cracking today while breaking trail. I dug a pit on an east aspect next to an older slide from Jan. 26th near North Creek Pass to better understand what layer this avalanche occurred on. It appears that it probably failed on the Jan. 22 interface (the new/old snow interface).

North and east aspects continue to have poor snowpack structure with a host of weak layers and a slab resting on top.