I visited a couple of different avalanches from the 3/14 avalanche cycle. North facing slopes have over a meter of a very stiff slab sitting over sugary facets. That structure aligns with the low probability, high consequence current state. Many of the north facing avalanches in this area appeared to fail on this same layer.
Scattered snow showers (S-1) continued throughout the day. A heavy band of snow moved through after 1500hr with S2 rates. Wind was light from the south. Some drifting was occurring but no visible slabs forming. A lot of the south facing slopes didn't have much snow after the previous days of solar input.
After standard tests like the Extended Column could not impact deeper weak layers, a switch was made to the Deep Tap and Propagation Saw tests. On a sheltered north facing slope at 7700', the snowpack was 220cm deep. A 5cm thick layer of facets was down 110cm and had results of DT23, 24 (SC) and PST37/105 (End) x 2.
A large avalanche in Owl Creek failed about 110 cm down on a layer of 2-3mm facets near a thin melt-freeze crust. This persistent slab wrapped around terrain features and pulled large blocks away from a slope in the upper 20 degrees.
A avalanche that failed on a SE facing slope at 8900' had a 80cm thick crown. The bed surface was filled with snow and the crown face was sagging quite a bit to have high confidence in the true bed surface. I couldn't safely get on to a flank of the path to get a proper snow pit, but hammered out an ECTX on the crown face with propagation after 2 additional hard hits. It failed below a thick layer of melt-freeze crust with weak facets below it down 80cm from the surface.