Tamarack Peak Observations

We toured throughout the Tamarack Peak area today.  We dug a snowpit on a north aspect at 9400' to look at the recent storm snow layers and at the old weak layers in the snowpack pre storm.  The snowpack in this area is 230cm deep at our snowpit location.  Previous weak layers are down around 170cm with the recent storm snow mostly right side up and gaining strength quickly.  The old weak layers in the snowpack, the Nov 9 and Dec 11 facet layers, were still reactive to multiple snowpack test results.  They are buried so deep though that triggering would be challenging, but could still be possible in areas where the weak layer is closer to the surface or with large loads.  We had good visibility toay did not see any recent avalanche activity throughout the area.  The persistent slab issue remains a low likelihood high consequence event.