Unstable test results in Beehive

My friend and I toured in Beehive this morning.  Was calm early but the winds picked up late morning and were whipping around pretty good as we left mid-afternoon.   Dug a quick pit at ~9300 ft along the upper east side of the west ridge of Beehive Basin (lower end in the timber before it gets exposed in the upper basin).  Snowpack was ~120cm deep, approximately half of that being from the last storm series.  We got an ECTP11 that was a smooth propagation which failed ~65 cm up from the ground at the interface of the new storm snow.  This reinforced the instability we expected to find and we stuck to a few laps of the smaller / gentler east facing meadows.  Skiing was great though!  With the wind today I’m sure the instability will only get worse before it gets better…