The morning started off a bit on the warm side (-5C at 9 am) until the passage of a cold front and an associated graupel storm in the late morning through the afternoon bringing colder temps (-11C at 4 pm) and increased wind speeds. The vast majority of the new snow today fell in the form of graupel which was blown around all afternoon. We stuck with a conservative travel plan and thus did not get into any steep terrain and stayed below ridgeline, out of the wind. We specifically avoided N-NE-E aspects today, due to the forecasted High danger rating on those aspects.