Strong overnight refreeze and east wind on Mt. Judah.

We went for a late morning tour on Mt. Judah today. We anticipated a strong overnight snow surface refreeze and some slowing of surface melt above treeline by E winds. This along with rough snow surface conditions is what we encountered. Runnels were widespread making for a rather rough snow surface. By 11 am there were 2-3 inches of surface wet snow on top of very supportable melt-freeze crust.

In this particular area, nearly all of the recent storm snow from this past week has assimilated into the upper snowpack melt-freeze layer. We encountered only small and isolated pockets of recent storm snow that had yet to undergo melt in well shaded terrain.