There was snowpack reactivity, but it was difficult to be too alarmed by it. Found generally mediocre bonding between the soft snow and underlying crust. This led to loose/semi-cohesive avalanching underfoot on test slopes of at least 35 degrees, with increasing angle directly related to ease of sending the snow downhill. Wind affected snow was more cohesive and cracked into small blocks, but no shooting cracks, collapsing, etc. This seemed to match the Meisenheimer obs for 20250117, though I found few hints of faceting at the lower elevations we were in today, limited instead to protected, shady terrain above 7000ft with small facets on the crust surface--isolated to say the least. Otherwise, the usual D1 point releases in steep solar terrain, some running relatively long at 500-600ft of vert.