All you need to do is look at the Collins weather data for the last 5 weeks to know what we have going on in the basement. 5" of SWE then dry weather for weeks with Nov/Dec sun angles? Ugh. Today I would describe what we saw on N aspects above 9000' as something like a very slowly healing new snow instability. Propagation of cracks and collapsing were not widespread and the new snow since Saturday (settled to ~20 cm) was still forming only a very soft slab. We were debating whether ski cuts would still be an effective mitigation measure despite the weakness technically being a PWL. But new snow instabilities heal in a matter of hours to maybe a couple days. This will be around for a long time. I expect that with the warmth, clouds, wind, and precipitation tomorrow this observation will be quickly irrelevant.