Dug east facing pit at 6,400' in the Jewel Basin on a 30 degree slope. HS 185-200 cm. ECTX. Two pencil hard crusts were located 70cm and 90 cm deep and were not reactive in extended column tests. Faceted snow was only located immediately against the ground. The storm snow from last Thursday night has settled, consolidated, and gained some strength, providing some bridging over these crusts and weaker snow at the bottom of the snowpack. Small rollovers and steep test slopes were also unreactive. We felt comfortable skiing steeper, planar terrain (35-40 degrees) one at a time but stayed away from rockier terrain that might expose shallower weak layers and core shots. Winds were light out of the west, visibility improved by the end of the day, and precip was mostly flurries, except one brief but intense band of graupel. We did not see any avalanche activity once the clouds lifted.
