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Snowpack

Anonymous · May 10, 2013 · Sawatch

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Weather

Calm with broken clouds. Intense sun when cloud cover permitted, still comfortable when sun covered. Approximately 30 cm new snow in previous 36 hours.

Snowpack

I dug a 1-metre square pit. The top 20 cm was sloppy wet new snow from the previous day. This layer rested on a 4-cm layer of facets, which in turn was on top of the dust layer from last month. The remainder of the pack, down as far as I had dug, was a single consolidated slab of knife-blade hardness. The new snow was bonding fairly well to the facets; it took some force to get it to move on the dust layer.