cold smoke in da middle fork.

Ran out for a quick tour in the Middle Fork on a day off. 

• 5 to 8 inches of low density snow on skin track at roughly 5k.
• Light to moderate snowfall until we departed at 3pm. New snow was falling straight out of the sky without a breath of wind.  
• Dug a few quick pits up to our high point of 5200'. No surface hoar observed on east and northeast aspects. ECTN7 down 8 inches at new old/snow interface. ECTN16 down 20 inches.
• 1/13 crust was roughly 80 cm below the surface with facets on both sides.