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Snowpack

Kevin Pilgrim · Mar 18, 2013 · Sawatch

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Weather

Gust to 40 mph. Snow followed by wind overnight Sunday night. Another couple inches Monday morning

Snowpack

All aspects in the trees near treeline had no body to the pack. While skiing on untracking snow the snowpack would collapse. Found a supportive crust on both aspect below treeline on north aspect likely from the recent warm up. Heard the snowpack settle on us while we were skiing up in the low angle terrain. Reminds me of a January snowpack.