We found a layer of buried surface hoar in Sage Basin of the Taylor Fork area in the southern Madison Range on a NE facing slope at 9000 ft. It could easily produce an avalanche and it produced unstable results in stability tests (ECTP12). Unfortunately it does not exist everywhere and we do not yet have a good sense of its distribution; however, it does not seem to exist on slopes that have experienced any amount of wind. Photo: GNFAC