Completely supportable melt freeze crust on skis. Foot penetration was 20cm. We found the last bastion of dry snow on a series of 35-40 degree north facing rollovers just below white pine lake. The slightest change in aspect or reduction of slope angle to less than 30 degrees resulted in a breakable crust. Experienced a period of S2 snowfall from 1400-1530 that barely made the skiing tolerable. The graupel rolled down the steep smooth surfaces and when the precip type changed over it began to adhere to the corrugated surfaces at mid and low elevations. This layer will likely remain moist with the new snow capping it and keeping it from freezing.

In our various snow profiles on East and West facing terrain features in the mid canyon, we noted a homogenizing snowpack that is very locked up and transitioning to a spring regime. It did not appear that water had moved very far down through the snowpack, although runnels were present on the surface in many places. No percolation tubes present. A crust laminate exists on the West facing terrain 30-45cm below the current surface. No facets observed in between these layers. We did conduct a few CTs producing resistant planar and sudden collapse below these crusts in a layer of clustered rounded grains, but the shear plane was irregular. No propagation in ECT.