South Rockies west slope

Greetings from the west slope of the south Rockies. Went looking for an allusive stash of deep pow. Instead, found uniformly dense snow on sheltered NE thru SW aspects. Made me think that maybe the storm finished warmer on this side of the trench compared to what we observed yesterday in the Purcells. Many steep south and north facing paths had slide; some to mid runout, some further, but some not at all. Storm snow had a ski pen of 10cm. We didn’t observe any near surface instabilities. When the sun came out for any length of time it packed a bit more of a punch today, and the tree icicles were beginning to drip a bit at 2100m. Almost no wind. Backroads were like a skating rink.