I found 19-22cm of snow from the 3/5-6 storm. This snow was still very low hardness and unconsolidated on shaded slopes, but settling fast on southerly aspects due to the solar input. I saw some drifting of snow via saltation, but at the below treeline elevations I was in did not see loading of leeward slopes. Beneath the new snow is the widespread rain crust that formed late February and is present on slopes at and below around 10,000 feet. On steep south facing slopes, I was able to trigger very small slabs that ran on this crust, but without skier input I would not expect to see the same, and rather only loose wet point releases.
I dug snowpits on NNW and NE slopes. The height of snow was around 190cm. Beneath the crust which was buried about 20cm by the new snow, I found a 70cm 1-finger to pencil hard slab of mostly rounded grains. This thick slab was above a persistent weak layer of facets which is being compressed and strengthening. With such a thick slab above, I was unable to affect the PWL in snowpit instability tests.