Strong winds around Ward Creek

We spent the day in the low angle, well spaced trees around Ward Creek, and observed lots of blowing snow on surrounding terrain features, and also blowing snow from treetops. Creeks were open with very few snow bridges, and the snow below the rain crust 2-3ft down was still wet and not refrozen yet. With all the open water and generous tree spacing, I figured this would be a great place to look for surface hoar buried by last night's 1-4" of light snowfall. Even right next to creeks where there was new surface hoar forming on the surface, I couldn't find anything buried. Mitt pits, shovel tilts, and compression tests did not produce planar results.