Deep Snow on Andesite

We picked a familiar location for today that we were comfortable getting into and out of while avoiding all avalanche terrain.  Snow depths were deep on Andesite Peak with slow trail breaking and ski conditions.  Total storm snow was right about 4', and we could feel the old rain crust at the bottom with a ski pole pushed down into the snow.  Roughly around 1' of snow on Tuesday night/Wed morning, and 3' of snow Wed evening into Thursday morning.  Snow was coming down consistently and heavy throughout our tour, at about 2-3''/hour.  Storm snow conditions were again slightly upside down, with heavier denser snow on top of slightly lighter snow.  While we had cracking around skis while skinning, very little other signs of storm slab weakness existed.  As we neared the top of Andesite, there were many signs of wind slab development: blowing snow, snow surface scouring, and cornice development.  Even with these signs, the wind slabs were lacking in strength.  We did some ski cuts and cornice drops on small test slopes with only loose dry sluffing occurring.  Some of these sluffs did run full slope and entrain a fair amount of snow at the bottom.  Visibility was very poor and with the deep snow our movement was limited in the terrain that we accessed.