As we hiked further toward snowline on the Merritt Lake trail we came upon clusters and lone standing fruit bodies of what we believed were miniature Blewitt's(Lepista Nuda) with extremely large frozen "puddles" of bright mycelium at there stem bases. I had remembered L. nuda was formerly Clitocybe nuda and began to key from that page in Demystified. The spring fruiting(at snow melt edges) along with cap, gills, mild anise scent(as with most clitocybe) and the aggressive/visible mycelium at each specimens base are a direct match.