Frozen snow surfaces on all aspects on Silver Peak.

Touring on Silver Peak this morning we encountered frozen, supportable snow surface conditions on all aspects. Mid and high level cloud cover was dramatically slowing warming. The only areas of snow surface melt we encountered at 11:30 am were on S aspects below about 6,800'. On N aspects there was up to 1 cm of recent storm snow on top of and well bonded to supportable crust.

No snow is available for wind transport as winds build ahead of the approaching storm. No signs of instability observed while on tour.