As mentioned above, winds and cooling temps kept snow surfaces locked up on nearly all aspects. S-SW aspects below 8000ft softened up enough to support some good turns, but the remaining majority of the compass remained stiff, cold and textured. Recent winds, warmer temps and variable/weak overnight freezes along snow surfaces in the Cutler Ridge area have created heavily textured and scratchy conditions, with varying sastrugi, firm sun crusts, wind board and the occasional tiger stripe of cold snow. Snow surfaces were mostly supportive, with ski penetration averaging 2-4in along the common Cutler uptrack. Southern aspects were able to snag a bit of warming by the afternoon, with wet snow found in the upper 2-4in below snow surfaces above 8500ft. The extent/depth of surface saturation increased as we lowered into mid elevation S-SW-W aspects. Wet snow instabilities were largely absent today, with infrequent/small rollerballing and slowly increasing boot penetration depths on southern aspects into the afternoon. Due to the hardened snow surfaces, minimal to no active snow transport was observed, and fresh wind slabs were not identified today.