Few Signs of Instability in Lionhead

We rode up Denny Creek to Lionhead Ridge. After that, we rode back towards Watkins and Targhee creeks. We dug a pit on a north facing aspect at 9000’. We found 5.5’ (170 cm) of snow. We had an ECTN27 on a layer of rounding facets ~1 foot below the surface. We had this same result on an E facing aspect. We saw some old avalanche activity under Lionhead Ridge, but there were no signs of recent avalanches.