Aspen

Snowpack

12/15, 6 inch of TG facets on ground in open slope areas(no tree cover)total depth 16inch ,12/15 Sat: entire Harris's wall had already slid naturally, at and on the 6 inch TG layer, new snow of 6 inch plus on that layer was easily released by ski cut back to the 6 inch layer scouring the slope.All open slopes >28 deg remote triggering, cracking and reactive to ski cut , >30deg slopes separation of cracks and movement >33deg full failure to 6inch TG layer. 12/16 same area, new snow loading,all ski testing similar to sat,no natural releases, only trigger by skis, 12/19 same area, slopes already affected by ski cutting 28 to 32deg no reactions, untouched >28 all the same failures as SAT, and SUN.,watched the left side of Harris's get ski cut and slide back to the 6 inch depth, releasing all new snow