Hunkered down in more wind protected terrain but noted drifting along higher ridgelines.

Storm plus potentially "persistent slab" -

Cracking and shear tests elicited weakness 4-6" down within the new snow just above the couple-day-old wind slab/crusts. These crusts in turn sit above last week's high pressure facets and - at least where I traveled - didn't have enough of a new load to step beneath the crusts in the faceted snow - perhaps at higher locations with more wind. I do think these would have been possible in this higher more open terrain, producing larger (still size 1.5) avalanches; and potentially triggered from a distance.