Will keep it simple and focus on just one thing I observed this morning. Took a few runs on east-facing Reed & Benson ridge down into Days Fork. There were several sun crusts sitting underneath the new snow from the past three days, but by late morning there still wasn't enough of a load for the weaker snow just above the crust to become active apart from some sluffing in the top 10-15 cms of snow. (This of course may change entirely with increased snow amounts.)

However, we exited W/NW aspects off of Reed & Benson Ridge down into Cardiff Fork where the 30 cms of snow from the past three days was sitting on top of well-preserved faceted snow. It was very easy to trigger sluffs and soft slabs failing at this faceted interface. Ski cuts on steeper aspects would easily provoke these slides and they were running fast & far with impressive debris piles around trees, etc. While stopping in a safe zone, I saw a natural sluff over a cliff band run down about 100', entraining the top 30 cms of snow. This is consistent with what I was seeing Friday morning in upper LCC - the faceted snow that was preserved on northerly aspects was reactive to stability tests and ski cuts. Apparently the 10 cms of new snow during this morning (and the rate at which it came in) was enough to get this layer reactive, although there is now a deeper slab on top.

I am suspecting there are several other issues with respect to this storm, but this morning it was very clear to me northerly aspects with preserved faceted snow (since it began snowing this past Wednesday Feb 20) are quite reactive to the storm snow.