Quick report
Toured Deep Creek this afternoon. Found boot- to knee-deep, medium density snow while breaking trail and skiing. The upper snowpack felt right-side-up. No cracking or other signs of storm slab instability. There were small cornices along the east side of the summit ridge (we didn't traverse very far west). Kicked a dishwasher-sized cornice onto a north-facing, wind-loaded test slope at ~7700 feet. The cornice was stubborn and did not trigger any noteworthy cracking or slab release on the slope below. We saw older buried avalanche debris on the top ~hundred feet of that slope from earlier in the storm. We stuck to the more sheltered NNE aspects on the eastern side of the summit ridge, hoping to avoid what we thought would be more wind-hammered slopes closer to the crest. On shaded north & NNE aspects, the air and snow were still cold in the afternoon. Snow in the more open, sun-exposed E & SE slopes around the top half of the skin track were getting soggier and developing a sun crust in the afternoon. Tree bombs aplenty. The summit ridge was quite windy and clouds were ripping, but the winds were mostly calm below the ridgeline.