Main attraction today was the rimming event, the rime was first noted at 8900ft increasing with elevation gain. At about 9200ft the rime crust could be separated from the old surface snow, it was about a sixteenth of an inch thick or maybe a little thicker. Much like a zipper crust.

Stood at the top of Little Water Peak waiting out a period of socked in skies and rimming. Pic is of my goggles after about 5 minutes in the rime cloud.

Dug a pit at 9300ft N facing and wind protected. Total snow depth was 34 inches did a compression test and was a little surprised by the results, instead of the surface snow being the weakest layer it was the 5 inches of loose faceted snow under the rain crust from November, I would say a Q2 clean planar shear in the facets below the disintegrating rain crust, shallow snow pack area. Pics pit with the rain crust isolated a foot and a half down, clean shear under the rain crust, and the 5 inches of facets under the rain crust.

Sluffing not much of a factor today because the faceted snow was capped by the rime crust. If we don't get snow soon I would suspect the shallow snow pack areas might rot out completely, fell through the pack to the dirt in a few of the steeper sections of Little Water peak. Pic minor sluffing in a steep section of the slope.