Fresh wind drifts and cracking in the storm snow did not surprise me. But I was mostly interested in how the snowpack prior to this weekend now looked. We found the old snowpack to be damp/wet down to the ground on all aspects up to 10,500' with no persistent weaknesses. The storm snow has bonded well to the old snowpack, and recent storm and wind instabilities will quickly settle out.

Overall a solid snowpack for late October. Going forward, with high pressure beginning later this week, the recent storm snow will likely weaken at the surface on shady mid and upper elevation aspects, but for now it seems we do not have any weaknesses down near the ground.