Wet Snow on Incline Lake Peak

Full cloud cover on Incline Lake Peak with moderate to strong SW winds.  Evidence of a slight overnight freeze above 8900' with a thin and breakable surface crust.  Most areas still had continuing wet and punchy snow conditions.  Along the summit ridge, 9400' N aspect, we looked at recent wind slab strength.  We had 2x ECTP results on wind slabs along with softer less dense snow failing on a previous firm crust.  This layer was 14'' deep and looked to be failing on moist and rounding old near crust facets.   We dropped several large cornice chunks on nearby slopes with only one breaking down onto the crust layer but did not propagate further than the cornice piece that was dropped.  All the other cornice tests showed no results.   N aspects had some ski supportability above 9000', while E aspects were more unsupportable.  Loose wet avalanche activity picked up below 8800' on E aspects with ski turns sending wet snow in motion on steeper slopes.