Red Cone

Observed early and rapid warming on all aspects and elevations of Red Cone between 9am and 1230pm. Many new and recent rollers and D1 loose wet point releases observed originating below rock band on the Mammoth Crest and above Hollywood Bowl. Test slopes on E aspects at about 9500' at 1030am had small rollerballs and loose wet sluffs. Test slopes on N aspects at the same elevation and time had knee deep ski pen after jumping, but no results. The snowpack below about 10,000' is generally isothermal and moist to wet. Probing showing the snowpack to be generally consolidating with mostly thick hard layers. In several locations I could feel a much softer layer down about 60cm that I expect to be the remains of one of the facet layers that developed in Feb. In open areas the snow was generally supportable with boot pen being 5 to 10cm with boot pen up to 30cm in punchy snow on treed slopes. Skiing on W aspects above 10,000' at noon was good corn: about 10cm wet snow on supportable melt-freeze. The trees down to Horseshoe were punchier and had boot-top ski penetration.