Sad times with wet snow, yellow snow from tree cry, frozen rain drops on branches, and grabby breakable rain crust up to 1850m. Above 1900m pleasant 20cm new snow from Dec24th, wind affected from southerlies on ridges and open. No reactivity to ski cutting or riding, however we didn't try too hard to find out. Cornices are growing. It started snowing at 2pm again, however turned to rain below +- 1400m around 2pm.