Front Range
SnowpackKyle Siegel · Dec 5, 2021 · Front Range
Weather
12500 ft. N-NE aspect. Half way up Snoopy's Collar. Sunny, no clouds, mid 30's, low wind.
Snowpack
We were able to consistently skin from about 11200 ft. Above 12500 ft on N and NE aspects we found 80-90cm of faceted snow with about fist hardness from top to bottom with 2 wind crusts in the top 20 cm of the snowpack. Snow had visible wind effect on the surface on N to E aspect. We were unable to get a fracture from a CT and ECT. We did not observe any instability in the snowpack. In the NE couloir of the Citadel we found cold relatively consistent faceted snow that resulted in some moderate sluff while skiing.