Snowy, sunny day on Carson Pass

    On my way to Carson Pass, it was snowing hard over Luther pass, and by the time I got to Red Lake the sun popped out and gave me a chance to see the surrounding mountains. I could see multiple loose dry avalanches coming off steeper slopes within the area but no crowns or slab fractures anywhere. The trailhead was untouched and snow surfaces along the way were unconsolidated and the ski pen was around the boot top. The surrounding surface snow had no signs of wind effect and was mostly intact dendrites. The sun was in and out for a while during the morning allowing for some radiation to poke through but only for a while as the snow turned back on, and continued till I left around 1400. The wind was calm in the morning but picked up a little with the new snowfall and allowed for light to moderate transporting of snow. I dug two pits today, one was a tiger trap on a NW aspect around 8500'. There was 115cm of new snow above the Jan. 24th rain crust and 200cm of total snow to the ground. I completed some shovel tilt tests within the new snow and did not get any results. From there I was targeting the Dec.11th layer in order to perform a deep tap test. There were no results and the facets in this area were smaller in size and moist, slightly compressing in the hand. In the second tiger trap on a north aspect @ 8700' I looked closer at the new snow and the Dec.11th layer again. The snow was now 250cm to the ground here. Within the new snow, I had multiple results from the compression tests with one clean sudden planar result about 55cm down. I followed it with an ECT and had propagation on this same layer within the new snow. Digging down again from there, I got results on the Dec 11th layer in my deep tap test (DT25). This layer did still have large faceted grains that were still weak and moist at best. It would probably be really hard to trigger this layer as deep as it is now. On the way out I could see snow blowing off nearby ridgelines from SW towards E aspects forming cornices and wind features in the distance. Driving down the skies opened up again through Hope valley and I did not see any other signs of instability on Red Lake peak or Stevens peak as I drove by.