I skied along the telephone line from Green Rock Picnic Area up to Mountain 
Meadows Lodge.  I then followed the road up to Brooklyn Lake.  The snow was 
wet & stuck to my skins.  I found a SE facing slope that appeared to be 
without snowmobile tracks on the N side of the lake.  Here are my 
observations:
               slope 30 deg.
               exposure 100 deg sse
               depth 4' 9" approx.
               temp 35 +/-    
               layers soft depth hoar to 9",  hard icy next 2', firm    
               granular up to 8" from top, last 8" soft & wet.  
                    The shovel test broke at the 8" mark with little pressure.
                    It took 6 jumps on skis to knock down the uphill side of  
                    the snow pit.

There were 70 snowmobile vehicles and 7 ski vehicles when I left at 3:45 PM.  
Jim Pond reported 151 & 17 respectively at about 10:30 AM.