Skillet - Bacon Rind

Skied the Skillet today on Bacon Rind and found a layer of what looked to be surface hoar and decomposing particles buried 20cm below the surface under the fresh snow we received this week. It was about 2cm thick. Ian and I dug around at Bacon Rind on similar aspects during the second week of January and found (from what I remember) a relatively stable snowpack with rounded, pencil-hard grains. This pit showed that those grains look like they have weakened and seemed to be more mixed-form and loose/sugary in nature. Our HS was 130 cm right near the top of the line.