Spring Snow on Mt. Judah

It felt like I could hear running water nearby for most of the day. I had to find my way around several open creeks today. The sunny warm weather has sped up the snowmelt, and many places that were snow when I was here last week have melted out at the lower elevations and on the sunny SE-S-SW-W aspects. N aspects and E aspects above about 7400 feet still held good snow cover. This snow also remained firm and supportable on the N aspects until I left the area around 1 pm. Variable amounts of wet surface snow existed on other aspects. E-facing slopes held 2-3 inches of wet snow on a supportable refrozen crust. SE-S-SW aspects had closer to 3-4 inches of wet snow. The snow started to become less supportable around noon on these aspects with some places holding boot-top deep wet snow. These southerly aspects also had lots of rocks and areas of exposed ground. I did not see any rollerballs or pinwheels, but I left the area as soon as the snow started to become unsupportable. 

The weather remained warm and sunny into the afternoon. Some clouds started to build over the region after 3 pm.