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Snowpack

Chad Mickschl · Jan 26, 2011 · Aspen

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Weather

Inversion this morning with low clouds in the valley floor. Winds were calm.

Snowpack

Trace new snow. Evidence of NW winds transporting snow onto lee aspects the past few days. Cracking observed in small wind loaded features. On East aspect at TL found buried FCsf at 30cm down with F hand hardness above and buried SH at 55cm down with 4F hard snow above this layer. We had easy hand shears on SE aspect failing on FCsf. Compression Test results: CT14 SP failing at 30cm down and CT15 SC at 55cm down.