In my pit, I found about 9" of new very light snow. Then there were a couple 4F old surfaces immediately above F facet layers. Near the ground there was a denser slab 4F to 1F about 30 cm over about 15 cm of 2-3mm facets. I did a quick CT test and had the surface snow kind of collapse and slide off at CT6, but it was not a cohesive slab. I also had a very irregular fracture at CT26 at 35cm, so nothing that really alarmed me for today, but not trust inspiring.
Example of the lack of cohesion of the new snow to the harder surfaces on NE-W aspects. The snow was just sliding off on slopes 40 degrees+. Some of these sluffs did pick up some steam on steeper slopes and even picked up some old snow in one of the chutes above tele heaven. but nothing propogated out into bigger slabs.
You can see some of the bigger sluffs under the cliffs in this pic. It was magical up in the alpine. Absolutely quiet, and I did not see anyone else or any other tracks - weird to have Gold Basin all to myself.
For danger ratings, I'm on the fence for tomorrow, if we get >1" SWE, especially with wind, I think it might go high.
