Facets at Base of Silver Peak

Today we toured around the Silver Peak area.  When we dug into the snow we found multiple crust layers.  The December 11th facets are ever-present and although in some places in the past few weeks they were found to be rounding, the PWL we encountered at the base of the snowpack was heavily angulated and showed no signs of healing.  You can see very clearly in this photo I took through my loupe the striations on the facets.  As new snow accumulates throughout our next storm cycle we should be wary of the December 11th PWL.