Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Backcountry Babes · Feb 25, 2017 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Sky: obscured, Precip: S-1 with periods of S1, Wind: calm, Blowing Snow: unknown

Snowpack

On an East facing 20 degree slope NTL at 11,100ft with HS 166cm, we observed repeatable resistant planar fractures below melt freeze crusts down 18cm and down 31cm. 2 of our 6 compression tests produced sudden fractures below the melt freeze crust down 18cm.