Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Kirstin Newton · Jan 5, 2022 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Snowed S1-S2 all day while we were out 9:00-4:00, our tracks in were completely covered by the time we skied out end of day. Total accumulation varied with wind, I'd estimate anywhere from 4-7". We felt pretty protected lower in the trees, but once the terrain started to open up a bit the gusts were very strong with poor visibility at times.

Snowpack

Strong over weak was observed wide spread BTL on numerous aspects. Our pits around 11,200 E aspect- showed a few cm of new snow on top of a few cm of decomposing on a 1F solid mid pack on facets On S aspect we found a sun crust BTL By end of day it seemed as the the new snow was bonding pretty well to the old snow interface