With storms in the long range forecast, my main interest was the snow on upper elevation, northerly facing slopes. In general, the snow is faceting and loose, crusts breaking down. I was also looking for any buried graupel, and found it. Photo below (10,200', northerly facing) - the graupel from March 22/23 remain loose and weak, and has about 8" of snow above it at the upper elevations, more where wind drifted.
So the surface snow on mid to upper elevation, northerly facing slopes will be worth making mental notes about for the next few days if the forecast snow for late next week stays on track.
Not much going on - snow unreactive to a cornice drop.
