May be up to 8th inches of graupel up there.

Great day skiing cold dry snow in the Flathead Range.

• Toured into Remington Creek up to 7600'.
•  6-8 inches of new snow observed at our highest elevations.
• New snow appeared to be almost entirely grauple. 
• These deep cohesionless pellets slough readily on steeps, but didn't seem to run very fast. It skied like cold dry sand and made a very pleasing hiss as we schussed about.
• New snow appears to have started warm/wet and finished dry. It seemed well bonded at the interface with the old hard ice layer.
• The kiss of death (the sun) made an appearance late afternoon (3pm) at mid/lower elevations and quickly wetted the snow surface on W/NW aspects.