Aspen

Snowpack

Nate Liles · Mar 7, 2012 · Aspen

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Weather

Broken Clouds, No recent precip, winds from W/NW. Warm temps, 40+ Degrees just below treeline.

Snowpack

Shallow snowpack on most aspects, deeper and wind loaded on NE through SE Slopes, very reactive PWL ~60cm down on these aspects. Well bonded wind slabs above this PWL, making it harder to trigger. When compression tests were performed (ECT23) fracture was very clean, planar (Q1) and propagated across the entire block.