What a difference a day makes! Went back to Red Pine to ski some upper elevation lines that looked good to go on Saturday and was sadly disappointed by what I found, yesterdays warm temperatures had crusted the high elevation E and W facing slopes and the wind took care of the high exposed N facing leaving mediocre skiing, and to rub salt into the wound the cloud cover kept all high elevation slopes from softening except S, which is in rare commodity in Red Pine. There was quite a bit of wet activity yesterday in Red Pine, large point releases coming off the west facing stripping the slopes down to the dirt in some places and covering my tracks that were left in settled powder on Saturday. It may have been a shallow refreeze but if the sun doesn't come out for a long enough period of time nothing softens up in the high alpine and breakable crust is the special of the day. Exiting out on the trail at 2:30PM was a teeth rattling and loud experience.

Photos: new wet activity that occur Sunday

If it actually hit 70 tomorrow in the valley and the skies are clear tomorrow the wet activity might peak to considerable.