Sawatch

Snowpack

Quite variable. From bare ground to 24" of facets to hard slab over facets to hard slab on old summer snow fields to Sastrugi on hard slab. Saw 3 very old slabs, probably at least a month old. One was quite large on an east aspect just south of Mosquito Peak under the cell phone (?) tower. HSN 4X500X700+. Another one started in a narrow gully, went over a cliff and triggered a much wider slab which took a rather circuitous route around some moraine features. Last one was a top loaded pillow from N winds that looked rather shallow, debris looked like a 6-10" thick slab.