Wet snow, rollerballs, and pinwheels on Jakes Peak

We toured mostly NE and E aspects today on Jakes Peak looking at wet snow and at the old snow surface conditions pre-storm. We ascended the NE slopes where areas of well settled snow from last week's storm of about 6 to 12 inches deep became prominent above about 8,200' to 8,400'. Any remnants of the Feb 14 facet layer that I was able to find below last week's storm snow were moist and were easily formed into a snowball.

A decent snow surface refreeze appeared to have occurred in this area last night both on open slopes and under forest canopy. Mostly cloudy skies ranging from 4/8 to 8/8 sky cover today did not slow snow surface melt today. The snow surface was wet on all NE to E aspects traveled up to the summit at 9,160'. Descending the generally E aspect "Spring Run" avalanche path at 11 am. Here we were able to easily trigger rollerballs and pinwheels up to 2 feet in diameter across all of the micro NE-E-SE aspects that we traveled. Snow surface conditions in the avalanche path were remarkably consistent top to bottom with the most recent storm snow thoroughly wetted.