Touchy snow on Needle Peak

We were easily able to trigger small avalanches on little convexities and test slopes. These ranged from 15-40cm deep, with some running on a density change within the storm snow and others running on the buried melt freeze crust. Some of the small slides running within the storm snow stepped down to the MF crust. As the snow continued to fall these became easier to trigger, and we remote triggered a few small slides from about 10m away. We were able to trigger these slides both near treeline and (as the day progresses) below treeline in fairly dense trees. We didn't do any stability tests as it was quite obvious from the get-go that any consequential terrain was out of the question.