In terrain which has been sheltered from both recent heavy wind and sun, there is cold, dry and soft snow to be found. Despite the fact it's sitting on a stout crust, it was just enough snow to really enjoy riding. On the solar aspects we found some small grained sticky wet snow or a not yet melted breakable crust. Which, at upper elevations did not heat up much more than the top inch or two. At lower elevations it was more sloppy and we triggered some small, shallow wet slides at our feet within the new snow. Even in the shade the lower elevation snow seemed to be feeling the heat.