Snow morphing in Deep Creek

Touring in Deep Creek:  Pockets of cold air hanging in the valley have created up to inch deep hoar frost in the meadows. A lot of forested area under heavy trees has no significant crystal growth.  Snow pack has morphed with the top layer of snow becoming less dense over the last several days.  Digging deeper by hand revealed sold stable four finger plus snow to arms depth with varying depths of light unconsolidated snow at surface from 10 to 30 cm depening upon location and slope.  I kicked one cornice block of small size that only brushed away the light surface layer before stopping  50 feet below. Snow was stable on all slopes skiing. On steeper rolls the surface dust cascaded but nothing more.