Front Range

Snowpack

Wesley O'Rourke · Apr 24, 2011 · Front Range

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Weather

Sunny winds around 20 mph in the morning. WInds died out to around noon. Snow fall started around 1p.m and was coming on pretty heavy

Snowpack

Wind slabs were forming atop more consolidated and supportive spring snow. Triggered two to three inch wind slab that ran the whole length of dead dog cou. Top three inches of snow was highly unstable and would trigger at the slighest contact. These small slides never broke in to deeper layers and remained large sluff slides.