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Snowpack

Jason Konigsberg · Apr 13, 2020 · Sawatch

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Weather

Windy near and above treeline with calm conditions below. A few snow squalls intermixed with sun breaks and warm conditions.

Snowpack

Some intense wind loading observed ATL. Looked like southwest winds. I traveled BTL/NTL and no signs of instability. Cold and wintry NTL. It got warm BTL when the sun popped out at times. Wind Slab avalanches small, possible ATL/NTL. About 6 to 8 inches new on shady slopes. Snow has melted/settled to just a few inches on sunny stuff.---Jumping on a few lower 30 degree rolls produced only minor cracking. It seems the new snow is bonded well to underlying crusts.