The patrol fund level one class was touring around Ghoulies today on north, east, and south aspects between 6200’ and 6700’. We did not observe any obvious signs of instability during our tours.
We found consistent snowpack structure in multiple pits on each aspect travelled on with our layer of concern being a persistent weak layer buried ~40cm below the surface and below a couple of MF crusts. On the North and East aspects the weak layer was buried preserved surface hoar, while on the south aspect it was rounding facets. Our tests results were variable, with most ECTs and CTs collapsing the layer of concern but only a couple of those propagating under hard force (pictured ECTP28 from pit at 6450’ S 25* slope)
The skiing looked better than it was with nearly 10cm of new snow above the firm melt-freeze crust.
