There is more snow structure in south facing terrain, with a couple fairly hard crusts in the upper layers and generally more cohesive snow than on more north facing slopes in the region where the snow is structureless and rotten throughout in many places.. But there are also layers made up of very weak faceted snow as well and we won't be able to rule out avalanche potential on these slopes once they are loaded up by midwinter storms.

I'm still unwilling to venture onto steep upper elevation slopes, especially those facing north and northeast.