Sawatch

Snowpack

Evan Ross · Feb 16, 2012

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Weather

Scattered sky’s throughout the day. Light blowing snow throughout the day loading eastern slopes. Many solar aspects had thin crusts by end of day.

Snowpack

Skied and traveled between 10,900 and 11,600ft and up to 35 degrees. Skied mostly low to sub 30 degrees on eastern terrain. Skied an eastern 35 degree roller with five people total. Lots of jumping on roller and some ski cuts before the rest of the group skied. The same roller was later remote triggered from 100ft away on 28 degree slop via the face-plant technique. SS-AS(face-plant)-R2-D1.5 50ft wide crown up to 3ft deep on DH. Wile skiing another 30 degree eastern slope a hip-check led to some localized cracking. One collapse wile skinning otherwise no instabilities while traveling on skis.