Beehive obs

Toured around Beehive Basin midday 4/6. Very light dusting, no concerns with new snow. Solid 5-10cm supportable refreeze. Hand pits going from 9,400ft to the summit on the SW face of 10,602’ had moist but not wet snow beneath the new crust and a secondary more stout crust 30cm down. The moist snow between the crusts turned to facets as we moved up the face into rockier areas, with depth hoar at ground. We then skinned to the base of 4th of July, which had tracks and refrozen wet loose debris. We dug a pit right below 4th of July @10,200ft and got ECTP12 45cm down within a thin 1cm melt-freeze crust. Surprisingly the snow above the layer was not nearly as saturated as other aspects, we turned around there.