Why does Snoop Dog carry an umbrella? Fo Drizzle

A new freezing rain crust and a lack of new, transportable snow limited wind slab concerns today where we traveled in the Flathead Range.

• About an inch of new snow last night and very light freezing rain today left a soft, thin crust on the surface.  Despite moderate ridgetop wind speeds, there was no transportable snow or new wind slab development.
• The 2/1 crust reached to at least 7,000', our turnaround point.  There is about 6" of soft, faceting snow above it, with previous soft drifts up to a foot thick. These were unreactive to numerous ski cuts.
• We noted about a dozen D1.5 to D3 wet debris piles from during or prior to the 2/1 storm. Some of these may have started as dry avalanches at higher terrain, but visibility was obscured.  Hard to put a timeline on all of them, but wet concerns are certainly a thing of the past at the moment. Crusts are rock hard.  
• Given the stout surface crust and lack of wind slab concerns, we felt comfortable skiing steep terrain.