Minimal wind slab formation on Andesite Peak

We toured up the SE side of Andesite Peak today to open terrain around 8000’. While the vast majority of our tour was in below-treeline terrain, we were surprised by a notable absence of wind. Even at our high point (marked on map) around 3:00pm, winds were light at most. We did not observe blowing snow at any point today. Also somewhat surprisingly,  given the forecast, skies remained almost perfectly clear until the very end of the day. 

In general, we found 1-2” of new snow on a supportive crust with soft, faceted snow beneath. We did not observe any significant signs of wind slab instability.