Quick report
Skied in the June Lake backcountry today from 7300'-10900', and on NW through N through SE aspects. At the car at 7:45, the air temp was 27 degrees, and the overnight refreeze on our ascent was solid, with weaker patches in heavily treed sections. In most places, the melt-freeze crust was from 1-3" thick and fully supportable, but we did break through occasionally. There was cold winter snow under this crust. The sun was out in full force, and we did not feel any wind at all, until we reached the ridge above Ghost trees, where it was light to moderate out of the west. On top of Dream, it was a steady moderate west wind, and it was transporting small amounts of snow. This picked up throughout the day, and on our exit, we saw some small banners over the ridges. On our descent, we found wet snow on almost all aspects and elevations that we traveled. We triggered large rollerballs, and small loose wet slides on E, NE, N, and NW aspects from 8,000'-9,500'. We also found a loose wet slide that appeared to be from yesterday on the shoulder heading up towards Devil's Slide. It entrained a fair bit of snow, and left 1-2 feet of debris in the trees it ran into. In multiple locations, we found natural rollerball activity as well, and numerous places where rocks had shed snow, triggering pinwheels. The one snow surface exception we found today was due north aspects above ~9,500, including the north face of Dream Mountain, even after noon. This held a thin layer of faceted winter snow, sitting on a base of settled, cold powder, and it skied fantastically. There was no sun affect on this slope at all, or at the very top of Ghost trees. There was even some very small, long running, loose dry activity in this top layer, but it was very shallow, at a couple centimeters deep at most.
Avalanche
Loose Wet avalanche on a NE aspect at ~8850. Was triggered by a skier, and appears to have occurred yesterday, as the ski tracks away from the trigger point were hardened. Entrained a decent amount of snow, ran about 200-250 feet, and debris was up to 2 feet deep.