Little new snow on top of a very damp old surface snow made for "punchy" skiing at times. If you were light on your feet it skied well, but heavy use of the edges was inadvisable. A healthy mix of thick graupel was easily visible in the new snow. I tried to get a photo but could not get the camera lens to defog enough for a clear photo.
Underneath the new snow is at least 18" of heavily saturated old snow. Probing with pole plants indicated very weak snow below that. Given the cracking and collapsing that I found, I believe that in steeper areas could be rather easy to trigger a deep slab avalanche right now. This storm continuing at times through the day and forecast to pick up again on Saturday has me feeling that the danger of this problem will rise as more water weight is added.
Really similar, and rather related to the Deep Slab problem is a Wet Slab concern. This storm has been very wet and the layers below the new surface snow appear to be well saturated.
