Mixed bag out there, but the best news was the winds appeared to be smoothing out the old "hammered" snow surfaces and erasing many of the old ruts and tracks. Light transport was observed, and wind slabs and crusts were evident and building small manageable drifts in isolated terrain features well below the classic upper elevation starting zones. Still some patches of dense settled old snow that rode well in NSF's that were up to 4 inches deep in the most sheltered undisturbed terrain, yet the majority of good riding of this nature was shallower and only 2 inches deep. Crusts from the past weeks warm weather on Southerly aspects. No SH observed, it appeared that the winds destroyed this potential issue in many locations