Castle peak snowpit

Toured up castle pass. There was well over 3ft of fresh snow the entire way up. We chose to dig a pit on a gradual ne slope just below the ridge line where obvious wind loading was occurring. HS 170cm. We dug down to the basal ice at about 160cm. The fresh snow above this seemed well consolidated and right side up. Ranging from fist hard at the top down to finger hard. We found no discernible layers within the fresh snow. Compression Test yielded no planar results. Winds were high out of the sw and loading was continuing to occur.