Winds and precipitation starkly intensified throughout our travels this morning. When the wind shifted north around noon everything instantly became rimed including our gear, pit walls, and ourselves. We noted some graupel in the top few centimeters of the snowpack. Our layer of most concern is at 10cm and is made up of large, weak, faceted snow above a melt-freeze crust. My biggest takeaway from today is that the sustained winds from yesterday and today have created a significantly harder slab above the weak snow closer to the ground than I've observed in similar areas in the last week.
