Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Anonymous · Apr 13, 2013 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Light winds with stronger gust my best guess is the gust were around 20 mph the winds were coming out of the northeast. Some low cloud cover with overcast skies and snow falling.

Snowpack

About seven inches of very dry snow in the parking lot when we arrived about 7:45 am, got are things together and started hiking up. could tell that it had been warmer the past three days since we were out could tell the places that got sun got it and it was hard in spots in the trees. With the wind and the new dry snow are main focus was wind loading and the new snow sliding, we talked about the facet layer the was on the ground snow interface but did not fell like it was the main problem for the day. It was snowing most of the morning.