Front Range
SnowpackJ. Ibarra · Oct 22, 2016 · Front Range
Weather
-Clear/Sun -12,000-12,500ft -NE-SE
Snowpack
Most South-West aspects are dry. North-East are still holding snow down to roughly treeline with varying depths and consistency. Mose ridgelines at upper elevations have developed cornices. We found these to be roughly 30-65 cm thick. 2cm thick facets near ground, followed by a fist hard slab roughly 35cm thick, followed by a stout 4-5cm thick ice crust, followed by 2 cm of what seemed to be buried surface hoar. On top of that was a 4 finger slab about 30cm thick. We found the interface of buried near surface hoar to be moderately reactive as well as the interface at the ground. Lower down the slope we found suncrusts a couple cm's thick mostly on the cross-loaded slopes and SE aspects and less prevalent on the more east -NE aspects. We didn't see any reactivity between the old snow patch and new snow interface and found anywhere from 10-12 cm of facets below the sun crusts and on east-ne aspects.