Sangre de Cristo

Snowpack

Jordan Rowe · Feb 15, 2014 · Sangre de Cristo

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Weather

Fair, unseasonably warm, 30-40 mph wind, 50+ mph gusts

Snowpack

Mostly miserably deep and soft below TL, below 10,600' in particular. Above 10,600', more wind blown and -hardened than not, especially on the west side of the ridge crest. Above TL, solid wind slab coverage on ridge for about 250 vertical ft, with substantial cornices where ridge narrows above 12,000'. A few wind slabs in sections above this point, including on Spread Eagle summit block and shortly before summit, but ridge largely exposed.