Mixed Messages on Cinnamon Mountain

Toured up to the Cinnamon Mountain Lookout today. In a small meadow along the trail I got a small whumph, with a crack propagating out 5-10 feet all around me. HS was around 30-40 cm in this meadow. HS rose rapidly with elevation and I had no other large collapses throughout the day, but noticed some localized cracking in recently formed windslabs, and rapid warming of the snow surface in the sun all day. I dug a pit about 200' down from the summit, directly south facing, and got unremarkable test scores from a scary structure (full profile is in snowpilot). With the several warning signs I had seen, I chose to take my test results with a grain of salt, and ski a conservative line.