Observing avalanches in the new snow. Hand shears failing on isolation on the new/old snow interface. Everything was F hard on the surface and appeared to be F hard for at least the top 3 feet of snow. Saw some riming happening earlier in the week on Monday below 8500' in the late afternoon and curious what 3 feet of snow on top of that will do. Maybe nothing. Maybe something.

The current problem with our PWL is that it is becoming harder to observe. Less cracking, less collapsing, less woomphing. Of course, this is when things get extra spooky. Perhaps the best observation today was the lack of observations of the PWL. It's getting buried so deep I can no longer observe it through hand pits will need to start taking out the shovel. But we know it's there.