Faceted "sugar" forms predominate just below 2" of "storm" snow at 8800' along N and NW aspects b/w upper and middle Wolf Canyon just off the well traveled Lightning Ridge of Powder Mtn. A pencil hard layer sits 2/3 down the shallow 30cm snowpack. No cracking or significant compression test result in 2 test pits though wind deposits on the all north-related aspects from moderate/strong over night SW winds have started to take on a shallow neo-slab consistency. Quite nice turning conditions amidst conservative non-avy terrain sections (<30deg) in this circumscribed area, while avoiding convexities and steeper terrain along the flanks.