The cooler temperatures froze all the mushy snow from the very warm temperatures these past few days so it was quite icy and hard at lower elevations even at the crack of noon when we headed up. There are the usual, extremely wide variety of snow surface conditions you would expect when it hasn't snowed much in a month and a half. Sun crusts and wind crusts, galore. But as is often the case, the upper elevation, wind and sun sheltered slopes remained pretty good with 3-4 inches of soft, settled snow and recrystallized snow in between the tracks. The wind board out in the middle of the upper bowl actually was pretty good--kind of like a groomer at a resort, if you used you imagination.