Overall good stability and in this location there was no instabilities noted in the newest snow. The old snow surface was a damp melt-freeze crust and the newest snow had bonded well to the old surface. 3 distinctive melt-freeze crusts and the dirt layer (not a MFcr). I would venture a guess that this moist old snow surface may have a temperature gradient and is something to watch with colder temperatures over the next few days as there may be places with small grained facets above the uppermost crust in protected areas where the snow surface has stayed cold.
We went out with a mindset of assessing terrain before committing to slopes greater than 30 ° in steepness. We saw small avalanches (see above) from during the storm; otherwise we saw very little avalanche activity. The winds had decreased in speed and the cold temperatures kept the sun at bay and never created wet snow problems where we traveled.
