A somewhat complicated snowpack on northwest through northeast aspects. Approached Silver Fork from Solitude and noticed the transition from very thick rain crusts at lower elevations to thinning crusts up to about 9500'. Where there are crusts, they are forming facet sandwiches that are fracturing at 15-20 taps. At upper elevations (> 10000') where I am not finding crusts there are still the buried November facets which are now buried approximately 30 cms down. There are also a variety of 1F layers of wind deposits as well. There is still not a load significant enough to stress any buried weak layers, and the very light density new snow is probably not adding much water weight to the snowpack. Have been doing alot of ski pole penetrations (flip the pole upside down and jam the handle down into the snowpack) as it is a quick way to get alot of information about buried weak layers.
I did not observe any widespread wind loading apart from some drifts along the ridgelines, yet I imagine there is some wind loading on leeward aspects from the NW winds at higher elevations. My immediate concern would be fresh wind loading. Overall a Moderate danger. Super good skiing - Saturday was BDOY.
