Snowpack obs Ghoulie Point

Touring to the Ghoulie Point area, we dug a pit on a southerly (SSE) aspect. Snowpack depth of 155 cm composed of fist to 4 finger slab from the late December storms sitting on the mid December crust. Below that crust was 1-2 mm facets down to the Thanksgiving crust. We performed and extended column test (ECTN19) fracturing 50 cm across the column 30 cm from the surface. We continued to load the column to see if we could affect the buried facet layer and we could not in this location. However, we placed a shovel blade behind the column and with minimal force, the entire column collapsed on the facet layer. We also observed on our tour in this location a slight crust from solar radiation and temps just above freezing the day before on steeper south facing slopes,