Rapid Warming

stations on north end of Plateau reporting nearly another inch of water, but some rain, the rest in 3"4" of snow, drainage channels seem well established due to week of unseasonably warm temps and lack of significant overnight refreezing, roller balls on steeper slopes indicate wet muckers likely if you were so inclined to initiate them. We drove over the summit of Fairview Canyon to Miller Flat turn around, road is closed from that point down into Huntington Canyon, no evidence of recent activity, cornices sagging and looking old, some nearly touching the surface below, I guess rain does not make the greatest cornices. Snow mobiles were out in force, watched one highmark the center of Big Drift just under cornice , get stuck, get off and pull sled pointing and drove down without incident.