Warm day at Tragedy Springs

We started the day around 10:45, temps were well above freezing and the skies were mostly clear with some high thin scattered clouds. By 11:30 on E-SE aspects the snow surface had already started to soften, but only a couple inches deep with another 10-12 inches of firm crust beneath it. As we continued to travel most sunny aspects had the same amount of soft snow above firm crust. By 1300 cumulus clouds started to build and continued until our departure at 3pm. AM winds were light out of the E but shifted by afternoon to SW, however it did not seem strong enough to keep the surface snow from softening on sunny aspects. We did not observe any instabilities even though we chased sunny slopes relatively late into the afternoon.