Nice work getting there in the snow pods8 that had to of been fun. It looks like you had it all to yourself.I need to check it out again now.When I was there there was a pool floaty and that seemed to help.
Oh yeah we didn't see a soul once we left the vehicle. I'm sure the combination of a 3mi hike in, winter, and being a bit later in the day did it (we ended up coming out via headlamp). Luckily there was one faint set of footsteps off the road back to the spring otherwise I doubt we would have found it on a whim.
The pool floaty helped what, lounging? Right now its only 2-3' deep so its easy to sit, could use a bit of excavating work to make it a bit deeper in my opinion. If I head up at a low traffic time down the road I might bring a shovel to deepen it a bit if its still needed.