Snowpit Deep Creek

Touring in deep creek today I observed variable snow conditions from icy refrozen tree drips, sun crust, wet snow, dry snow, and some unconsolidated & faecting snow. I dug a snow pit at 7800' and found Hs 56cm of mostly 4f hardness snow. Riding on shady northern slopes I found lots of near surface facets and a supportable snowpack although with many exposed obstacles. As I dropped below 7200' there was a lot of exposed shrubs and manzanita to navigate. Stability was very good throughout the day and I observed no signs of instability. Of interest in the snowpit I dug was ECTN24 result at 30cm which is where the temperature gradient was at 2*/cm. Looking at that information I wish I would have looked at the grains at the bottom & top of the 49cm-15cm rounding facets layer I noted. I did the grain ID only at the top of that layer and found rounding facets but am curious if there were developing or fully developed at the bottom of that layer.