Chickadee Ridge Hasty Snowpit

We found about 20cm of new snow on the North and NE aspects of chickadee ridge.  Minimal signs of instability on our climb and ski, but in one spot we did have shooting cracks (see picture).

We dug a quick pit and on the compression test it failed prett cleanly after 4 taps at the interface between the new snow and the older snow (7 in).  Pretty much all the old snow was heavily facited and got worse near the ground.