Unsettled Weather on Yuba Pass

We snowmobiled out of Yuba Pass around the Lincoln Ridge area.  We were able to see most all aspects in below and near treeline terrain throughout this location.  Party cloudy skies this morning started to increase cloud cover with a couple snow flakes starting to fall in the early afternoon hours.  The big difference we noticed from being out yesterday in the Donner Summit area to today was the lack of widespread NE wind scouring.  There were some broken branches and pine cones on the snow surface in the most wind exposed locations along with some snow surface wind scouring, but nothing like what we saw yesterday.  Snow surface conditions were soft in shaded northerly locations with thin melt freeze crusts forming on sun exposed slopes providing good riding conditions.  With the limited amount of NE wind transport noted in these locations, we did not encounter any hard wind slab conditions on SE-S-SW-W-NW aspects even in the most wind exposed locations.  No signs of instability were seen today.