Deep snow on Rubicon

Toured Rubicon this morning. At least 18" of new low-density snow sat on top of the higher density snow from Saturday/Sunday. Winds were very calm throughout the tour. We stopped about 100 feet below the summit block to transition, but did not see/feel any wind slabs up to that point.

We stepped out of the skin track multiple times while ascending. A few times we were able to generate shooting cracks, none extended more than 6 feet. We did not observe any whumphing or collapsing.

Descending to 89, the snow was deep and fairly light down to about 6800 feet, when it became notably heavier and shallower, with some barely buried obstacles as a potential hazard.