New snow in Hyalite

My ski partners and I toured up Flanders creek today and found 9"- 11" of new low density snow. We dug a pit at the base of the SE bowl of Flanders at 9500 ft. The snowpack was 90 cm deep, slightly shallower than what we found on Divide peak last weekend. We found that the new snow was sherring easily in hand pits and we got an ECTP 6 on this interface in our pit. The layers beneath the new snow were faceted junk but not reactive in our tests. The new snow sitting on a firm crust layer was our main concern.