Steamboat & Flat Tops

Snowpack

Anonymous · Mar 4, 2013 · Steamboat & Flat Tops

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Weather

WNW wind 15mphish, gusts 20. Snowing hard S5 until around 2:00.

Snowpack

45-55cm HN. Very dense for the bottom 20+cm and then cold, light snow on top. Old snow surface= sun crust. Ski cut several small slides on E and SE aspects. Some failed on the old snow surface while other went on a mid-storm layer. Density change.