Front Range

Snowpack

Reed Ryan · Jan 14, 2018 · Front Range

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Weather

-2C, warming to 0C with clear skies, light to moderate westerlys BTL, ridgetop winds appeared to be much more blustery.

Snowpack

Dug a few hand pits on the accent. BTL at 9500ft, the east facing trees had an average HS of 70-100cm. ~30-50cm of this was broken/decomp precip particles (4F) from Friday/Saturday's storm. Below the storm slab, (which got thicker and heavier throughout our tour) there was a mixed bag of facets to ground. Ample whoomphing and cracking kept us in the trees and out of anything steeper than 30 deg. Ski pen in most places was 30cm.