Heavy snow blue lakes

We rode blue lakes today, sticking to mostly tree riding in pretty mellow terrain. We arrived at the parking lot 9:30am and there was sun peeking through. Looking south it was snowing. By 10am that snow moved into the parking lot reducing visibility significantly. The snow was rather wet. 

Snow riding down the trail was wet until we hit about 7800 feet. We had to constantly wipe our goggles until that point. 

Snow rates were quite heavy through the day. We looped back to tracks we made <2hrs before and we initially questioned if they were ours due to being filled in so much. 

There was a hard crust about a foot under dense snow at 7900 feet. In wind loaded areas it was less noticeable. Wind loaded existed just about everywhere we rode - some of the worst I have seen it at blue lakes. We stopped riding the trail at parts due to exposure above and how blown the trail was. Significant drifts existed starting about 5 miles down the trail. 
 

Once we hit 8000+ feet in sheltered areas we found multiple feet of snow with no crust to speak of underneath it. It was dense as you got past the first ~2 feet. 
 

We attempted multiple slope cuts with the sleds and were unable to find any instabilities. We did not find any shooting cracks or whumpfing. The sun started showing again around 4:30pm and in the distance could see roller balls which looked like triggered from snow falling off trees.