Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

The upper 3 inches of the snowpack was hard snow from drifting with soft recent storm snow underneath and then a soft faceted layer at the bottom of the snowpack. The slab, which consists of the storm snow from the overnight Nov. 3rd snow, has consolidated in the last 24 hours and become more cohesive. In most tests, I was able to get propagating fractures below this slab in the basal facets. In some places, I found a thin crust within the basal facets but this was not consistent.