As was widely observed prior to the storm, found the old snow on mid elevation shady, sheltered slopes to be very weak; with upper elevation slopes being a bit stronger. On the sheltered slopes, the new snow was not enough of a load, and being mostly low density, was not slabby enough. At higher elevations, although there was a bit more new snow and wind effect, there still did not appear to be quite enough of a load to overload any of the buried weak layers from January. But it was close. In wind loaded areas where the new snow is both denser (slabbier) and the load heavier, I do believe you could have triggered something onto the late January facets and I think the forecast of considerable was correct.

Could get shears, but no propagation both within the graupel from Sunday and the LATE January facets buried about a foot down (ECTN 7 and 12, respectively, Q2). While the graupel weakness will probably settle out overnight, expect the buried facets from late January may be more of an issue by tomorrow afternoon with an additional load.

Most surprising to me, was that I could get full propagation and clean shears on the EARLY Jan facets (60 cm down) without too much effort (ECTP 19 Q2). I had mostly written the early Jan facets off in areas outside of Millcreek, but maybe did so too prematurely? I think none of these weak layers are abnormally weak and won't plague us forever, but would expect some activity over the next couple days.