Wet Snow and Breakable Crusts on Silver Peak

Touring into Silver Peak we encountered soft wet sticky snow in sunny areas at 8:30 am. Ski kicks on a small steep sun-exposed slope at 6400 ft. released roller balls and pinwheels at 9 am. We continued up and we dug a few snowpits on the northerly aspects between 7200 and 8000 ft to look for any signs of lingering persistent weaknesses. We did not find evidence of lingering instability. We did find breakable crusts on top of wet snow. The snow surface on these more northerly aspects also had runnels on the surface. 

Once we gained the ridge at 8000 ft, we could see recent skier triggered loose wet avalanches (likely from yesterday - photos here) and some natural loose wet activity near rocks on NE-E-SE facing slopes. In the sunny areas at this elevation, almost no evidence of an overnight refreeze existed as of 10 am.  We descended a SE facing slope at 11 am and our ski cuts released several roller balls. The snow was sticky and wet and was quickly becoming unsupportable. By 11:15 am ski cuts on small test slopes on our way out triggered small loose wet sluffs.