... in summary, wet, crusty, and/or wind blasted! Grabby or nasty breakable crust along the entire route
Parking lot to 1100':
3-5cm wet / very wet melt forms over 30cm of moist dense snow, below that dry
Minor runnels observed on slopes, obvious places water would flow
1100' - 1500':
1-3cm wet/very wet 2mm melt forms over 1-4cm of moist dense rounds
This sat on a pencil hard thin breakable rain crust (formed 2/12 - 2/13?)
Below that crust, 15-20cm of moist dense snow
Runnels rare and only in obvious places where water would channel
1500' - 2000:
Breakable melt freeze crust on surface, getting smaller with elevation
This sat over 5-15cm of moist dense snow (dry below that)
2000 - 2200': Dry, wind blasted snowpack with ski penetration of 0 - 10 cm
Steep solar facing slopes above 1500' showed slightly more melting than northerly features, but overall to treeline warm temperatures seemed to have driven the bulk of the meltdown observed. Overall, we found it surprising that the snowpack wasn't more saturated at lower elevations given the duration of warm weather.