Prior to this past week, the entire Wasatch was covered with weak-faceted snow. We have now added anywhere from 15-30" of new low-density snow across the entire compass. We headed out today to see what more Easterly and Southerly facing terrain looked like. In zones we were breaking trail, we were still able to get audible collapses. In other zones where we were not breaking trail, the skin tracks have seen so much traffic, those slopes had likely already collapsed.

We dug a pit at 10,000' on a southeast aspect and found weak faceted snow near the ground, but were unable to get any propagation within our pit. On most solar aspects you can find a supportable solar crust just below the new snow. This will allow the southerly-facing aspects to be a bit more stubborn, and we will likely see less activity on this layer until we get more water. The aspects that remain concerning are those lacking supportable crusts.