Tamarack snow settlement

Toured Hourglass in relatively cold, wintry conditions in the afternoon under mostly to fully cloudy skies with moderate winds from the WNW. Snow had settled much compared to Monday's pack as indicated by supportability and settlement cones around trees. There did not seem to be much snow transport happening with the winds where we skied. Dug a pit at 9160ft on a SE aspect and found about 12 cms of moist facets below the new snow with a 4cm thick rain crust at the old and new snow interface.