If I may answer, "the alpine" last season was anywhere above 4500' on the east side of the divide in the north Cascades of Washington. Starting Saturday afternoon and continuing through early Monday morning, it crapped down between 8" and a foot or more of wet snow, depending on elevation.
Probably the same day bone's photos were taken, I was searching a nasty tag-alder hillside for my deer carcass and my two pillowcases of boned out meat from the front half of my deer. Could hardly tell where I was - it looked completely different when covered in 6" of snow. Finally found the meat - it was almost completely covered with snow, and it was snowing heavily.