Quick report
At upper elevations ridges, the snow was firm from wind scouring, with facets underneath that would allow your skis to punch through. We dropped into Neeley Basin about 50-100 ft and found that was still firm and affected by past winds. We observed skiers hitting a more NW aspect from afar who were looking to get some softer turns in.
It was a beautiful sunny day for our third day of the AIARE 1 course, no clouds in sight, that softened up the solar aspects and made for good exit skiing back to the cars.
Dug a pit (HS 68 cm) on a NE aspect @ 9500' just to look at the layers and found a right side up snow pack until 21cm where the thick layer of larger facets live all the way to the ground. 2-4mm facets.