Limited New Snow on Mt. Rose

We toured in the Tamarack Peak area today to monitor the incoming storm and avalanche potential.  We observed limited spillover snow into the Mt. Rose area with only 1-2'' of new snow in this area overnight and into the morning.  There was a break in the storm during the mid to late morning hours with broken sky cover.  The morning was very windy with gale force SW winds blowing the new storm snow around.  Available snow for wind transport was limited and wind exposed areas were scoured down to previous firm crusts.  Consistent wind loaded areas were hard to come by with this limited amount of new snow.  We did find some areas that had up to 4'' of newly forming wind slabs with some cracking in isolated areas.  These wind slabs will continue to build this afternoon and tonight as additional snow accumulates in this area.