Picked up an inch of new snow overnight near Snowbasin, on top of Saturday night's 3 inches. Wind rapidly turned the new snow into a 4F wind skin in many locations.

Clear skies continued to produce crusts on solar aspects over the weekend (Saturday to Monday, observed on Ben Lomond and Mt Ogden massifs), which persisted today. Crusts vary in supportability and thickness, with more melt (sun) and colder temps (higher elevation) leading to stouter crusts. Sandwiched between crusts is 4F snow, largely decomposing and mixed forms, no near-surface faceting to note despite looking a few times over the weekend. However, crust sluffing happened readily underfoot and we got CT results in the upper 15cm or so of the snowpack (example photo below of upper-pack solar aspect layering).

We found some preserved soft snow on northerly aspects between Saturday and Monday. However, much of this was wind affected, and only the most sheltered locations held preserved/recycled pow, with some surface faceting here and there. More or less across the compass, wind effects created potentially poor bonding between surface snow layers, which was a bit reactive underfoot, but without shooting cracks.

In exposed locations and ridgelines, wind slabs were about 1F to P hard, cornices were reasonably well developed, and we found some old cornice fall debris. This happened as low as 6800ft or so on Ben Lomond.