Front Range

After moving from shaded/northern aspects to southern, less new snow was observed but still about a foot was continuously cracking and breaking off on S aspect. Once I was on SE aspect (which had seen a lot of sun by 12pm), the wet, new snow was far more touchy and not well bonded to the hard old snow surface below. I was skinning across a slope right next to a rocky trigger point that finally gave way to a small D1 avalanche. No one was caught. Avalanche terminated at a small group of trees.

New snow until 10pm night before, and easterly wind changed directions by 2am to westerly.

Lots of new windblown snow. By 12pm, the new snow on SE aspect were quite wet and not yet well bonded to the old hard old snow surface below