Front Range

Avalanche

Skyler Mavor · Feb 10, 2018 · Front Range

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Weather

Snowing hard, winds calm to light. Snow >3cm/hour at times. Still snowing lightly when we left at 5pm

Snowpack

~130 cm total snow. 30-35cm fresh from this storm cycle at 3pm, Lower 60 cm of snowpack 4F hardness facets, bottom 20-25 cm fist hardness angular depth hoar. Depth hoar reactive in tests, ECTP 12 and CT 11 20cm up from the ground at the upper interface of the depth hoar, Q3 rough shear surface. Not reactive to jumping on test slopes. No/minimal wind affect in the storm snow, and very minimal evidence for storm snow instability.

Avalanche

None.