With the warm temperatures and direct sunlight the snowpack surface is setting up quickly. Along most of our route we could hear the skis of our sleds cutting through a thin crust on the surface. Below the surface in the meadows, in untracked snow and on north facing shaded slopes there is still some loose, creamy, dense new snow to be ridden. However, the further east we traveled (Soapstone->Iron mine creek canyon) the snow became thin, less dense and unpredictable. It made for tricky turning conditions as the sled would unpredictably collapse through the snow down to the surface.