Wanted to check out some lower elevation terrain while things settle out a bit in the upper elevations. Traveled from 6700 - 9200 ft. Coverage is very thin to about 7500 ft. but this storm cycle certainly helped a lot. Above 8K is where the coverage gets decent. It's been a pretty lean snow year, especially down low.

I was expecting a fair amount of cracking and collapsing but only had one audible collapse all day and no cracking. The only recent avalanches I noticed were new snow sluffs on steep slopes. I dug only one pit and test results were very stubborn and I got no propagation on either of the ECT's that I performed. I was not anticipating such stubborn results and no propagation. The mid pack slab in this area was more cohesive than what I've been finding in the other places I've traveled in the western Uintas. I've been finding more of a 4 finger hardness midpack but today it was one finger hard.

One standout in my tests was a CT that had a rock in the column so that the bottom of the column was about 30 cms above the bottom of the pit wall face. This column failed on basal facets at CT12. While other test results showed hard effort to fail this test shows the possibility of triggering a slide if you hit a thin spot in the snowpack.