Quick report
Headed up to the PC Ridgeline to see what the storm was doing, It was raining in the lower parking lot of Solitude when I arrived but graupeling in the upper lot. The snow was damp up to at least 8000ft and making a tight icy snowball was easy. Mid elevation was inverted, upper elevation was scoured. Took a look into Scott's which had a natural avalanche in it that I put on the avy page, No Name, and South Monitor all these north facing slopes were getting heavily wind loaded but Scott's was the only one with sighs of avalanching. I was getting cracking in the wind drifted snow but did not experience any collapsing. Some of the cornices are getting about as big as they get in these parts and I stayed quite a distance back from them, in these warm windy storms they become unpredictable and may break way farther back than expected. I also noted large wet avalanche debris piles in the bottoms of the Power House Couloirs
Photos:damps snow around 7600ft, cracking on the ridge line, extra large and overhanging cornice, wind blasting from the SW all day, wet activity on the rock slabs down canyon.
Snowpack
The snow on all aspects was damp below 8000ft, with the rain line reaching 7800ft mid day, The snow in the wind protected terrain was upside down and inverted and made for some difficult trail breaking, in the exposed windward terrain it was supportable wind slab or scoured down to old crusts and dirt, on the high N where the wind was loading the slopes the snow was deep, thick and inverted not a great combo.