New snow was falling in earnest, much to the appreciation of me and my partner. Rimed forms were coming down fairly dense and creamy, with the 10cm of accumulation by 0830 bonding well and filling in the bumps nicely in the old snow. The ski out was quite pleasant. This new snow sits atop old settled snowpack of about 45 to 60cm depth in the lower elevations. The right side up snowpack is capped by 1 to 5cm of crust with the new snow on top. The new snow seems to be bonding well to the underlying crusty surface. A couple 35+ degree test slopes showed good bonding on no long running sluffs (at least for the time being). Given the forecast for this storm, the accumulation down low, and the winds we observed at low/mid elevations, I'd be concerned about our basal facets up high and how reactive they might become with this new load.