Romanced the Crater Lake mainline today with a Little Simpsons exit. Both areas rode nicely with a mix of powder and wind effect.
Crater bowl has seen some wind action from the east from the past few days. Below 2-5cm of light powder lies a firmer wind-buffed layer that skis variably, but for the most part it's edge-able and good enough to have fun on. Worth mentioning that a significant area on the uptrack climbers right of the bowl settled on us as we approached, there is more snow than usual on that aspect that hasn't been fully sastrugi-fied over the last few weeks of snow.
The main crater cornice had some new growth over the past day or so, but we saw no wind-loaded slabby characteristics in the bowl.
Little Simpsons had better powder quality, but still sitting on that wind buffed layer up to 10 cm from the surface. Minimal to no cohesion in that top layer on the the convexities.