Therriault

Recreational tour to feel out the snow and shake out the cobwebs. Supportable but soft, weak snowpack above about 5600-5700 feet (image). Large surface hoar nearly omnipresent below about 6600 feet. Some drifting and scouring on exposed aprons and some confined features (image). On the exit trail, discretion got the better part of valor about 5100 feet. 

50-70 cm of settled snow above about 6000 feet, with 15-30 cm more in drifted areas. The snowpack is generally soft (F to 4F) and weak, except for a distinct, knife-hard crust just above the ground. There are soft, faceted layers around this crust. Midpack, there's a prominent 3 cm thick layer of small (<1 mm) facets sandwiched between 4-finger hard layers. More weak, fist hard facets just below the snow surface. A variety of snow surfaces - surface hoar, facets, thin wind board, melt-freeze crusts.