Sugar on Silver

Climbed Silver yesterday with the intent to see how structure was on the upper flanks where snow is. Clear and cold at the trailhead with a fresh breeze on the summit. I ascended and decended the North ridge that seperates the East Gully from the North trees. Up high after summiting I booted down (crampons) into the East gully above where it rolls over and found good cohiesive crust without the faceting structure below it - I was in the more East aspect of the gully and only dug 6" below the surface. Next I headed back over the ridge to the top of the Norths and booted (again w/ crampons) down into starting zones for those areas. I wasn't digging deep, just getting below the surface crusts. The first area had a thinner crust maybe 4-5cm thick witch seperated very easily form the facets below - basically it was surface crust then facets, then a buried almost decomposed crust with facets below that then the firm rain crust (?) below which I did not dig. The second location I chose was a bit farther East and slightly more North. Here the surface crust was thicker - maybe 8-9cm, again once this crust was isolated it basically had zero adhesion to the below facets which were 6-8cm deep befort the underlying solid rain crust(?)...