Date of Observation: 03/04/2023
Name: Danny H
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Travelled up to the Snodgrass saddle and then up towards Gothic through an southeast facing couloir.
Observed avalanche activity: Yes
Avalanches: Remnant avalanche that came through the spork couloir down Gothic probably from the wind loading last week. Also saw evidence of cracking with a 4-inch thick propagating crack that gave on the old wind crust from last week.
Weather: Calm and overcast until around 4pm when ridgeline winds began ripping.
Snowpack: Dug a test pit to assess the faceted layer about 2 feet down. The facets were overlaid by a 4cm thick melt-freeze crust most likely from the period before this last number of storms and we could not activate the weak layer with ECTX results.