Wet grits and corn

Looking to shuck some corn today. Found some, but also found plenty of wet grits. 

• Snow surface frozen and supportable below about 4900 feet in the AM; remained frozen and supportable on low NW and N facing slopes below about 4500 feet into early afternoon.
• Mix of snow surfaces on W-NW-N facing slopes above about 4900 feet - some melt-freeze crusts, some dry snow, some thin (<1 cm) friable crusts. Did not ski this aspect. Ski pen generally <10 cm. 
• At mid elevations, steep sunny slopes softened quickly, w moist to wet snow up to 2 feet below the surface, as evidenced by gouges left by rollerballs the size of bus tires. A few the size of end loader tires. These were easily triggered with turns, but also easy to avoid. This snow had the consistency of half-cooked grits or polenta; it felt like recent snow getting wet for the first time rather than snow that had been through multiple melt-freeze cycles. 
• Numerous recent avalanches in this drainage - small to large wet loose slides in steep sunny gullies and in shady, NW-facing gullies, all likely from 4/7. Avalanche details tab and images for details. 
• 2 D1.5-2 fresh slabs on east face of Nycak Mountain, likely wind slabs from strong winds of the past two days. Avalanche details tab.
• 1 very large avalanche that released just below the cornice on the E face of Nyack. This debris from this D2-2.5 sized slab pulled out several other slabs as it ran 1800 feet downslope (image, avalanche details tab). The track faced northeast, and these slabs may have released on the 3/24 facets and crusts prevalent on that aspect. 
• On our ascent, we crossed one steep, NW facing slope at 5800 feet that was likely to harbor the 3/24 persistent weak layer without any collapses.

Sweetest, most lasting corn we found was on moderately angled slopes at mid elevations. Easily overlooked.