Cold, low-density snow with glistening surface hoar sits atop a settled slab of snow accumulated since 4/1. Recent snowfall sits above pencil to knife hard crusts and wind packed surfaces formed during last weeks warm spell. Impacting weak layers below the interface is unlikely. Triggering an avalanche in recent storm snow appears limited to steep slopes that have developed a firmer connected slab. I saw no signs of instability apart from some recent Loose Dry and soft cornice failures off steep ridgelines exposed to the wind.

Red Mountain Pass

A couple of loose avalnches triggered by soft cornices or wind loading.

I looked to see if facets developed at the interface of the 4/1 new/old snow. On a north-northeast slope, I found a small layer of .5 mm facets sandwiched between pencil-hard wind-packed grains and what I believe to be the old interface before the April Fool's wind event. This layer was unreactive during pit tests. The recent storm snow carried a few density change layers that had broken failures during compression tests but failed to propagate.
The new storm snow has settled into 4F to 4F- density below last night's 4 inches of light snow. Surface snow varied in density across the slope, but I failed to observe cracking anywhere I traveled.

Broken clouds, cold temperatures, and glistening surface hoar. Red Mountain Pass picked up 4 inches at .4 SWE 4/3 into 4/4. The measured storm total since 4/1 at Red Mountain Pass is 18 inches at 1.55 SWE.