South side Tamarack crusts

Toured up the south side of Tamarack from the Meadows to check out conditions before the storm rolls in. Light winds and high clouds, with the temp at the car reading 35. We hoped that gaining higher elevations would make for softer snow, but it appears the warm snow and light rain that fell in this area on Wed night was more widespread than we anticipated and had refrozen last night into breakable crusts. Tree bombs and icicles in the trees were signs of yesterday's warming, with the snow this morning under tree driplines extremely firm and icy. Found a few patches of soft snow in protected small openings, but otherwise we just found a lot of variably thick MF crusts. Tried traversing to a more westerly slope but found similar conditions. The refreeze last night was stronger in open areas, making for generally highly variable and challenging skiing conditions.