Went up to Scotts Pass today and dug a snowpit on an east facing slope at 9500'. As expected, I found a layered cake of facets and crusts sitting above a strong base. Height of snow was 52cm with surface hoar on N-E mid-upper elevation slopes (pictured below). The wind was doing a good of job knocking the SH down in exposed areas, as well as the sun in the late afternoon. Stability tests showed fractures initiating at two crust-over-facet interfaces (ECTN-17 @ 42cm above ground, ECTN-28 @ 28cm above ground), and did not propagate in my tests.

In upper BCC, snow is limited to NW-E facing upper elevation slopes. Nearly all south faces are bare.