Observation: Dog Lake area

Mixed bag. Sunday night's storm has settled to about 2-3" up high and remains cold (and starting to facet) in only the true north facing terrain above 9700'. Low angle, smooth off aspects provided the best skiing with damp snow above a carveable crust. It appears that all of this recent snow sits on a crust on all aspects and all elevations; bulletproof, then breakable above 10k. I did not observe facets above this crust, and yet it is very slick and will promote longer running avalanches if slides step or gouge there.

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I went to look at the various and variable snow surfaces ahead of tomorrow's storm.

* On some northeast and northwest aspects, I found very small but clear and loose RR facets above the crust.

* On true north facing slopes above 9700', I found Sunday night's decomposing, fragmented snow (1st pic) starting to facet (2nd pic)

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There was no option for "burnt to the ground" above, so I'll add a pic for a thousand mostly unprintable words for many solar aspects.