We were looking for the recent snowmobile triggered slide that buried a rider the day before but didn't find it. We may have looked right at it, but the light was flat.

Wherever the riding is good (aka deep and soft), the PWL exists. You can feel the soft snow under your feet and even under your skis/track and that tells you that the facets are there.

After riding near Humpy Peak, I rode 12 miles (as the crow flies) to the southwest and looked at the snow above Smith & Morehouse Reservoir on a low elevation, northwest facing slope. Below is the profile. It had some of the weakest snow I've seen. What's different in this location, was that being a lower elevation, it has a smaller load of new snow on it. However, with such weak snow, it doesn't need much of a load.