Hiked then skinned up to a high point of 6000' to see what was delvered to this area over the last week. A lot of melting and refreezing (mostly melting) going on below 5000'. The strong graupel shower we received in the valley early Sun morning was evident above 4800' where it had not yet melted. At higher elevations there was about an inch of new with a lot of graupel included.
Again, the surface snow conditions varied a lot based on aspect and elevation. Dug a pit at ~5900' on a WNW aspect finding a foot of F hard snow over the hard early March crust. CT15 on a layer of weak snow above the crust. The rest of the column broke at the ground. No propagation on that layer ( ECTN21). Unfortunately when decending this line that nice foot of surface snow was quicly replaced by a grabby crust and frozen rollerballs below 5500'.
SW and W aspects provided dust (graupel) on a thick crust.
Generally there was little evidence of Sunday's moderate winds.
