Headed up to the Raymond Slabs from Millcreek Canyon today, damp warm and humid at the trailhead and stayed that way until 7500-8000ft. In the meadow where you take a left for Gobblers and Raymond which is usually covered in a layer of large surface hoar feathers, held only melted and destroyed surface hoar that could be squeezed into a damp snowball, and we did not see any surviving surface hoar the rest of the day, the temps got too warm and the surrounding air was too moist for it to survive. In the upper drainage the surface is weakening a bit and sluffing in steeper terrain due to small grain facets forming on the surface but nothing too alarming. We did get one collapse with cracking but I think it was more due to a terrain feature than poor snow pack structure.

Photos: Surface hoar feathers destroyed by warm temperatures and really moist air, slufing in the upper drainage in steeper terrain, glide crack opening up on the Raymond Slabs,cracking and collapsing more due to a terrain feature than poor snow pack structure.