Hellroaring Observations

My group and I spent March 5th - 8th in the Hellroaring Creek drainage on the SW side of the Centennials. We were right on the heels of the 13ish day long storm in the Island Park area. From what we gathered, the snowpack was handling the loading very well. We saw no natural avalanches. Pits dug on shady aspects were around 250cms deep and had few noticeable weak layers and no reactivity during testing. Pits on South and West aspects were about 200cms deep and had a thin pencil hardness crust (melt/freeze I believe) ranging from 115-140cms above ground. This crust had facets around it and was reactive in column tests but showed now propagation in the ECTs.