Mirror Lake Highway is closed and snow packed from Soapstone up. Low elevation very thin with 1 to 2 feet of snow in the upper elevations. Still lots of rocks up high and between the wind, warm temps and overall lack of snow there is not a lot of connectivity on most slopes in the area. I encountered no surface hoar in my travels but the overall snow surface was weakening. South facing slopes were melt/freeze crust (where there was snow) and I observed a crust sandwich on many upper elevation south faces. This was small (1mm) grain facets sandwiched between two 1" thick melt/freeze crusts. Pit tests reflected moderate effort to fail but shears were not clean and did not fail with a lot of energy.