Spring Snow on Judah

We toured in the Mt. Judah area today.  Expected warm temperatures and above overnight freezing temperatures made us get an early start.  We skied east facing terrain off of Judah at 9:45am that had softened nicely and provided good supportable conditions.  Most of these east aspects had been wind scoured by the recent NE wind event down to previous melt freeze crust.  In some wind protected areas, recent storm snow existed that provided softer snow that got warm and sticky by late morning as the snow continues to transition to spring type snow.  At 10:45am we skied the south face which had a thick melt freeze crust below 2'' of soft corn snow on the surface.  Northerly aspects continue to be a mixed bag of firm crusts, wind blown snow, and gloppy snow conditions.  Minimal loose wet instabiliites were observed during our time out, but continued warming would indicate wet instabilities would increase into the afternoon.