The snow amounts from today's storm were underwhelming in this area. Melt-freeze crusts in the lower and middle elevations held up very well despite the warmer overnight temperatures. I didn't get into the upper elevations, but exposed middle elevations didn't have any wind-drifted snow.
Snow showers throughout the day with brief periods of S3 rates. No blowing snow.
Impressive slide from the 3/15 cycle. The light was very flat, but I walked over to see 150 cm thick blocks near a crown line that appeared to rip out at the ridgeline.
The new snow was tacky until above 7000', where it noticeably got lighter. Crusts at the valley bottom had a good overnight freeze, and no free water was moving through them. I dug a couple of quick pits to look at the structure on south-facing slopes below 7000'. The crust was remarkably thick, with no obvious weak layers in the upper snowpack. Percolation columns were running through the thin layers of facets in the upper 30cm, but I imagine these layers might be thicker and less connected up higher.
On a sheltered NE pit at 8,200', the snowpack was 240 cm deep. The 2/18 layer of facets was down about 120 cm and was 1 cm thick with a hefty slab on top of it. I couldn't get any propagation in the upper snowpack, but two layers stuck out with ECTN results. One is down 30cm, and the new/old layer is down 17cm. It was a very soft slab at this point and might need some additional weight to build a thicker slab to avalanche.