In reply to Hans:
Foehn conditions for the past few days, so high winds at all altitudes and tropical temperatures. Also at the end of last week a load of Saharan sand got dumped on the mountains :/
Given all that it was surprisingly ok over the weekend! Up high it was mostly hard wind-blown snow with pockets of powder in sheltered areas, in the middle it was reasonably compact corn snow and at the bottom it was gloop.