Bacon Rind

Strong temperature inversion in the AM, -4F in the meadow and about 20F at the ridgeline. Sunny by late morning with light winds. The southern aspects were getting baked pretty good in the sun. We were getting roller balls and snow globbing on our skis on the SE aspect to the south of the standard skin track. 

About 60 cm of snow at the top. Soft (F hardness snow) basically to ground. Almost no wind loading. Definitely can see some of the snow at the very bottom starting to facet a bit. We saw A LOT of surface hoar mid slope and down in the meadow, but very little toward the top. The northerly aspects had no obvious signs of instability yet. I'd expect the surface hoar and/or an extended period of dry weather could set up some interesting weak layers over the coming days/weeks depending on how the weather plays out.