I'm not crazy about March snowstorms either, they're nice to have but with the sun angle the melting starts immediately. I prefer to start building a pack end of Dec beginning of Jan with additions in Feb, 2015 was good for that but I also like 2011.
That's happened to two of my dogs over the years, I used peroxide, baking soda and dawn dishwashing detergent. Worked great except I couldn't get near her eyes so I used douche.
I remember ice fishing and early morning we went out and drilled holes and set up out tilts, later that afternoon we picked up our equipment and were faced with the bathtub ring. Got a little wet making it to shore but a good memory.
I was there for a couple days before an Alaska cruise in June and it was also drizzly for both days. On the way back from the cruise it was a 70 degree sunny day, that was the day we went home.
I watched one of those shows, lucky to be alive or something like that and a guy out west fell head first into a hole near a tree. He couldn't move but got damn lucky someone later in the day noticed something sticking out of the snow and he got help and he got out. That has to be a terrifying way to go.
Used to ski there all the time when I was in School, they had night skiing, so we'd go after class, 45 minutes away and get a few good runs in. This was back in the 80s so we had to go when we got some snow. Fun little mountain.