Sawatch

Snowpack

Tyler Lehmann ยท Feb 28, 2011

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Weather

Sunny, 30 - 35 degrees farenheit, calm winds down low, ridges blowin hard and mod to heavy transport at ridgetop, approx 3' new snow fell from weekend storm.

Snowpack

NNW aspect. 11500'. Represtative of contact hill. 210cm depth,from bottom up; faceted depth hoar 1-2mm to 90cm, fourfinger hard rounds to 130cm, new snow(stellar dendrites, yeah!) to 190cm, and 4% champange to 210cm, no discernable crusts or weak layers. 3rd tap from the shoulder produced a very low qual shear at 130cm. deep tap test failed at 3rd from the wrist at 70cm. extended column test did not fail.