The new snow was so light, not weigh very much and with very little wind, so it did not seem to affect the avalanche conditions very much.  The main hazard was that it concealed the plentiful rocks and encouraged people to get out on a snowpack they have avoided for the past week or two.

Various groups in our avalanche class dug snowpits in many areas.  In most places, we found very weak faceted snow with very light new snow on top, so there was no slab. In the thicker snowpack areas, such as in a wind drift, there was enough snow for the faceted snow on top to take away the steep temperature gradient so the weak layer could gain strength.  In either case, the snow was quite stable.

But in some, localized areas, we could dig a snowpit where we could not isolate a column or it failed on easy to moderate compressions. It seemed that the worst slopes were ones with an east-southeast component so there was a little sun crust to help create a slab.  But from what we could tell, these were localized.

Brandon Dodge found the weakest snow along the Clayton - 10,420 ridge where he was able to collapse several localized areas, mostly E - SE, as I recall.  There was some localized wind slabs within the new snow near the ridges but most of the most serious problems were within the old, faceted snow.

Any avalanches in this very shallow snow will be much more dangerous than normal because it would involve a ride through rocks and much more trauma than normal.

We watched a couple parties descend Rocky Point and Sunset peak without incident, but it was a bolder line than I would be willing to attempt. 

My main concern with the 4 inches of new snow is that it improves the turning conditions enough that it encourages people to get out on conditions they have avoided this past week.