Hey Dave...... A little more on the snow pack. Before this super hot weather hit we still had close to 70 inches on the ground in our higher feed elevations. The problem with this was that with a 220 inch over all snow fall, there was a vast amount of snow squishing the underneath snow pack. This compresses the snow to almost a block ice consistency. If we had 70 inches of light snow on the ground it would have melted fast and hard, hence a chance of a good run-off. It's like putting a hundred pound block of ice on the ground, and in opposition a hundred pounds of light snow fall. The snow would melt in hours and the block would be down just a bit. Also as the pack hardens the warm earth, usually about 32 degrees sends heat up through the snow pack and slowly turns the bottom snow/ice to a liquid that is protected from the heat of the day. Hence snow still on the mountain seeping into the ground instead of a wild run off as you said.