Snow Depth Check & Wind Transport- Mount Rose Meadows

Took a ride up to Mount Rose Meadows to check out the new snow accumulation totals during this break in the storms. Yesterday, 11/6, I was able to ride my bike to the top of mount rose summit and only observed trace amounts of snow in very protected aspects. This morning there was on average 15cm of new snowfall across the meadows with depths reaching 40cm in wind affected pockets. This top layer of new snow is unconsolidated snow with four-finger (4F) hardness with grains ranging from .7 to 1mm in size. 

Other observations made 

Boot pen- 15cm  , Air temperature: -8 C  ,  Surface snow temp: -10 C , Temp down 15cm: -4 C