We found the full range of snow conditions on our tour today. Lower elevation slopes softened rapidly as the sun hit them this morning, but we were able to find some soft turns in some steep north facing trees off the Laurel Highway. Pole probes revealed the lingering facets at the base of our snow pack, but things at mid elevation seem to have bridged over well. We had 2" ski penetration at the top of our run with nice creamy turns all the way down. Once in Horse Creek we headed towards the southwest bowl of Mellenthin in search of some corn. We stopped short of our destination due to a large scree field that looked like it never go enough coverage over the winter to bury the rocks. We back tracked to a steep south west facing ribbon of snow that we had crossed earlier and found firm conditions at the top and corn on the bottom half. On our ski out of the drainage we found a fair amount of mash potato snow, so plan to get up early to catch the corn cycle before it turns to mush. The North faces appeared to have decent coverage, so as long as the dust stays down we might have some good spring turns in April.