Quick report
Overall low hazard on a beautiful day today. Still, some lingering signs of wind drifted snow, but today I was unable to get any results in stability tests. Across the board, when I was doing hand-pits the solar crust on solar aspects was not shearing separately to the 30cm below it, nothing was pulling off clean. On the northern and eastern aspects, there was only soft noncohesive snow on top of the February 7th solar crust.
Looking down the road, I would be concerned about the crust on southern aspects becoming a bed surface and the weakening surface snow on northern aspects becoming a weak layer. I would continue to monitor the surface snow and how the crust develops over the next few days, and if it becomes supportable.
Photo of the solar crust on the southern surfaces
Photo of evidence of winds at upper ridgelines
Photo of melting snow in trees on south aspects
Snowpack
The snow surfaces varied greatly depending on what aspect I was on. Any solar aspects have been heavily impacted by the last few days of sun, and steep south and west-facing terrain currently possess a thin solar crust. South-facing terrain that is less steep was damp today, but I didn't see any signs of point releases. The snow surfaces that have not been exposed to the sun are still soft. The cold night temperatures have to lead the snow surface to weaken and remain loose on the north-facing aspects. Yesterday, on steep north-facing terrain it was easy to get shallow sluffs of weak snow. I think that the warmer temperatures and tomorrow could help this surface snow.