About 10-14" of light density snow around 10,500', made for decent riding conditions on lower angle slopes with old snow. The old crust seemed supportable when keeping the slope angle moderate. Did not observe any wind slab formation first hand, but did see some areas that looked like there may have been some windslab. The new snow was unconsolidated and was not forming a slab, and did not appear to be a significant enough of a load to activate the poor snowpack structure.

The crust seemed fairly strong (P-K) about 1 cm thick at 10,200 on a NW aspect. Near crust facets below the crust and some faceting graupel. Could find a thin layer 1-5 cms of basal facets/cupped striated depth hoar on the ground. There was about 115 cm snowpack at the 10,200 NW location with the basal layer, facets, some faceting graupel (appeared to be from 2 separate storms/events), the crust with definite near crust facets below (layer of concern moving forward), and about 35 cm of new snow sitting on the crust.

I think with additional load on the thin crust with the weak snow below we will start to see avalanches. I think this could fail on the near facet crusts and be able to gouge down into the weak facets and faceting graupel layer.