Heavily rimed surface snow and minimal buried surface hoar on Lincoln Ridge.

The 12/4 buried surface hoar layer was mostly absent in this area. In a couple hand pits we found the 12/4 SH layer, but it was just 2-4 mm grain size and it did not produce clear shears.  The snow surface was heavily rimed with large 6-10 mm surface deposit crystals, widespread above and below treeline. No signs of instability were observed.

Air temperature inversion conditions with cold fog below ~7,700' and clear sunny skies above.