Sawatch

Snowpack

Geoff Guthrie · Mar 8, 2012 · Sawatch

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Snowpack

HN24=0; HS >TL varied from 10cm to 120cm according to wind-affect and southern exposure; tremendous spatial variability; sun-crust/frozen top 3cm most of the way up; mostly supportive and cohesive top 30cm with few trapdoors here and there where sun-crust gave way to collapsing facets that ran to the ground; hard freeze in town overnight (low temp of -13.3C at 6:00am)after high spring temps the previous 2 days