East Side Flanders

We had a great tour, dug a pit on the East Side of Flanders BTL around 8700. Overall the snowpack seemed fairly stable, finding no signs of instability while skinning. But, we definitely found a concerning crust at 160 cm that was very thin on the NW slope we dug on, but noticeably stouter and shallower on a more southerly slope we skinned to. We had two failures in our ECT, both with no propagation outside of the shovel width, one ECTN16@185cm with medium-poor fracture quality. The other was ECTN23@160cm right under the small crust; it had medium fracture quality, no propagation. W had no other signs of instability, just minor sluffing in the top 10cm while skiing. We dug 120cm total of 205, all of it was dry. Great skiing today!