Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Brent Herring · Jan 7, 2019 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

light snow, 20mph-30mph ridge top winds

Snowpack

NNE, 11800ft (NTL) just below Guyot's NW ridge, slope angle 26 deg, 135cm total snow. Wind loading evident. Top of the snowpack was fairly uniform* progressing from fist hard to pencil hard for ~100 cm. Fist hard facet chains overlying unconsolidated basal facets in the base of the snowpack. ECTX. *ski track apparent in the middle of the pit