Top Hat Avalanches

Our group of 4 skied top hat today. It was warm (around 0) at the parking lot. As we made our way up to the Col, there was around 10cms of fresh snow. On the south aspects the snow was fairly consolidated. When we rolled over the Col into the top hat line, we ended up easily triggering (simply stepping on the slope) multiple storm slab avalanches on the NE aspects of top hat (up to size 1). Anything steep was extremely touchy - with 10-15cm slabs releasing on a solid surface. There was also evidence of a significant natural avalanche cycle - lots of chunder and avalanches up to size 2 had come down in the past 24 hours.