Quick pit at 8600' E showed ~12" new snow fell on top of a slight crust above about 5" of faceted grains on top of the Feb 7th rime crust. The lowest of the new snow was plates and stellars and had slightly denser storm snow on top. Subtle hardness difference but enough to collapse and propagate a fracture - ECTP2 down about 10" within the storm snow. I'd expect this should settle out quickly but it was enough to keep us in low angle terrain, regardless of the potential NSF issues everyone expected. Overall, snow skied very well - fast and supportive on E but a bit inverted due to solar on more S aspects on our exit. Sloughs were easy to trigger and ran moderately fast in steep enough E-facing terrain.

Wind damage was apparent at mid to upper elevations around Raymond and Gobblers. Small wind lips/wind slabs were sensative but not massive where we traveled. They'd crack out around the skis and you could hear faint collapses with each step. In bigger, less sheltered and more consequential terrain, they would've been a major issue today.