The mountains around Taylor Park have a thin, faceted snowpack with very few terrain-feature-spanning slabs of stiff snow.

Between the Western Sawatch and northern Fossil Ridge.

Road tour to Taylor Park.

Saw lots of terrain from many angles and saw no avalanches.

Very little continuous snow coverage below 11,000 feet. A thin, heavily-faceted snowpack covers almost all terrain near treeline, even on southerly and westerly-facing slopes. Above treeline south and southwest show lots of bare ground, but west has better than average coverage - still holding snow following the early November upslope storms.

Bluebird skis, bitter-cold temperature inversion in the morning gave way to rapidly rising temperatures mid-day. I saw tiny amounts of blowing snow in morning, but it looks like fetches are blown clean with the current wind speeds and direction.