New snow instabilities on Castle Peak

Skied on Castle Peak this afternoon. While ascending the beginning of the steep summit pitch of western ridge towards the summit, we encountered some new wind-effected snow. We dug a quick hand pit/nonstandard ECT (photo 1) which broke fairly easily, 8 taps from the wrist, on the new old snow interface. Based on this information we decided against summiting and traversed lookers left to descend through the NW facing trees. Right below our transition point, (location on the map) was a small wind lip roll over. The first member of our group semi-intentionally ski cut it and cause a fair amount of snow to release. The beginning of the ski cut produced classic loose wet sloughs. However on the steeper part of the ski cut/rollover, the snow started to crack a short way in front of the skier and moved with more slab-like characteristics. This only ran 50 feet in length, mainly because the roll-over was fairly small with a gentle run out and the skier was able to ski out of the debris fine. The new snow on this rollover showed minimal signs of wind effect on the surface and broke on the new old snow interface. It was notably humid out and the new snow skied heavily.