Another skiff of snow overnight to combine with the shot of snow from Monday. It's amazing how just three to four inches of snow and some wind can improve the riding conditions. Many of the slopes were cleaned up from the past weekends traffic and tracks. Unfortunately, not all of them, and it's important to recognize the old ruts out there when selecting slopes for riding. For the most part, many of the NNE, N and NNW facing slopes that are still holding cold snow appeared to fare well with this new few inches. Upper ridgelines and entrances to chutes that face these directions have scoured areas and sasturgi. Yet, once you get down into many of these slopes (with shady aspects) the riding on Tuesday was very good. Consistent, soft and dense settled powder was available in this type of terrain, and the riding has a bottomless feel in many places. Once below 9700 feet the sun appeared to dampen all slopes with aspects on the lower half of the compass. Low angle slopes on all aspects below 9700 feet were also getting damp by 1400. Supportable crusts were observed on SE, S and SW aspects, though it would be a stretch to call them corn at this point in time. After Wednesdays warmer temperatures combined with another good overnight refreeze, there should be good corn riding that may be able to hold up by following the sun and moving west as the day progresses. For Wednesday, it appears that there will still be good Spring powder on the Northerly slopes with angles > 30 degrees. And, if you can find this recipe, this kind of riding may still exist as low as 8500 feet. Along with these winter type conditions, supportable riding on a transitional m/f crust should be available on moderate slope angled runs with SE, S and SW aspects. These slopes may get punchy when they get a bit too warm.