Sangre de Cristo

Snowpack

Bo Torrey · Nov 18, 2020 · Sangre de Cristo

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Weather

Warm and windy today. Mostly clear skies over the mountains. Overcast in the valley.

Snowpack

Snow line is about 9600' out of North Taylor Creek. I was able to drive to within a 1/4 mile of the Trailhead. Snow depth along the trail up to 11,000' is about a foot with more in some of the wind drifted areas. Snow surface was damp on all aspects up to 11,000' after that the shady/northerly aspects help dry snow. The wind and warm temperatures have created some extremely hard surface conditions (Knife hardness).