Roller balls and damp wet snow near 10,000' in the middle of December is quite unusual. The forest is busy with all sorts of winter recreation and folks are taking advantage of the easy access with dry roads.
Only about a foot of snow on the ground for the snow sensor to measure at 10,500'.
Poor snowpack structure with dense snow resting on very weak November sugary faceted snow. Each time I tried to isolate a column of snow the entire block failed on the large grained sugary snow near the ground.
