Wet S facing surfaces on Chickadee

Toured out Chickadee Ridge today hoping to check out the snowpack on S and N facing slopes before the rain on snow event tonight. Quite warm (45 deg in the meadows) with increasing clouds and gusty winds out of the south, perhaps up to 30 mph. Still, the winds were not enough in this area to keep the snow surface cool, found wet corn-like snow on south facing slopes at noon. Shaded areas near trees were crusty. Dug a hasty pit on a S facing slope in the Incline Creek drainage at 8645 ft. Total snow depth was 145 cm; from 145-141 cm found very wet MF crust; below that from 141-91 cm found wet small grains from the latest storm (easily compressed into snowball); below that, found 2 ice lenses at 91 and 86 cm, with more fairly wet, rounds below that. Wished I had my full kit today to take some temp readings but would guess in general these layers were at or just below freezing. Toured over to the other side of chickadee ridge and found cold snow on N treed aspects, only crusty in old ski tracks or where tree bombs had fallen. Did a little hand pit at 8600 ft on this N aspect and found a very slight surface crust with unsurprisingly cold, drier snow beneath, although still clearly settled and temperature affected (just less so than the S facing slope, could not make snowball from squeeze test).